Indie Lens Pop-Up Screening: Love in the Time of Fentanyl

5200 Hampton Boulevard,Norfolk VA 23508

02 February, 2023

Description

Did you know that Fentanyl contributed to 76% of overdose deaths in Virginia in 2021? All seven major Hampton Roads cities experience the effects from Fentanyl. Most seriously affected are Portsmouth, Newport News, and Hampton. Join WHRO Public Media's Emerging Leaders Board for this one night screening of "Love in the Time of Fentanyl". WHRO has once again partnered with a national public media documentary company to create opportunities for community dialogues around crucial topics. Throughout the year, the board will be working with Independent Lens, America’s home for independent documentary film, to provide Indie Lens Pop-Ups, “a neighborhood series that brings people together for film screenings and community-driven conversations.” About the film: As deaths in Vancouver, Canada reach an all-time high, the Overdose Prevention Society opens its doors—a renegade supervised drug consumption site that employs active and former drug users. Its staff and volunteers do whatever it takes to save lives and give hope to a marginalized community in this intimate documentary that looks beyond the stigma of people who use fentanyl and other drugs.