Community educator opens up about pandemic’s effect on opioid use

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Sue Tisdale works for UnityPlace in Peoria as a community educator, providing opioid awareness and overdose prevention. She also created and oversees the nonprofit organization Duney’s Defense, named for her son, who she lost in the opioid epidemic.

Tisdale joined Galesburg’s Evening News on Friday to discuss misunderstandings about addiction, life-saving drugs, and how COVID-19  has worsened the scourge of opioids in America.

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