Addressing the Opioid Crisis in Erie and Pennsylvania: Examining Local- and State-Level Responses
Addressing the Opioid Crisis in Erie and Pennsylvania: Examining Local- and State-Level Responses
Over 130 people die every day in the United States from some type of opioid overdose. The opioid crisis in the United States is real and is affecting all areas of the country. Join Pennsylvania Representative Jim Struzzi, who has sponsored legislation to address the crisis, along with professional public library staff members, as they discuss clean needle exchanges and the opioid crisis in Erie County, Pennsylvania, and how it has affected public libraries.
Location: Jefferson Educational Society - 3207 State Street, Erie, PA 16508
Date/Time: Friday, April 26 at Noon
Admission: FREE, optional $5 boxed lunch (please register 48 in advance for lunch)
Parking: lot behind building, State Street, 33rd Street, 32nd Street, French Street
Pennsylvania State Rep. Jim Struzzi is in his third term of service to residents of the 62nd Legislative District of Indiana County.
Like many citizens raised in western Pennsylvania, Jim was instilled with the traditional values of hard work, personal integrity and community service and he is committed to protecting those values in the state Capitol. Jim tends to focus on big-picture, incremental solutions and is a big believer that success is derived through hard work and personal sacrifice rather than government intervention.
Jim’s strong faith has helped him to cope with the loss of his brother, Michael, who died from an overdose at the age of 31. Addiction touches all ages, genders, and socioeconomic statuses, and Jim vows to try to solve this crisis by working together with community, state, and federal leaders.
He graduated from Penn Trafford High school in Westmoreland County; earned a degree in electrical wiring from a technical school in McKees Rocks near Pittsburgh; and acquired his bachelor’s degree in English writing with a focus on communications from the University of Pittsburgh in Greensburg.
He and his wife Christina, and their children, Aviana, Talan, Zarek, and Vaughn reside in White Township, Indiana County.
