"Painkillers & Heroin: Our Community Problem" 

Join state and community leaders, law enforcement, physicians and local experts as they highlight Fairfax County's current fight against painkillers and heroin use. Help our community take action and raise awareness to prevent and reduce use among our county's youth and young adults. 

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Don Flattery of the Governor’s Task Force on Prescription Drug and Heroin Abuse, who lost his son to prescription medicine, will give the keynote address.

Panelists at the event will include: Jesse Ellis, Fairfax County NCS prevention manager;  Second Lt. James A. Cox III, Fairfax County Police Department, supervisor, Special Investigations/Narcotics Money Laundering Unit; Maria Hadjiyane, Inova Behavioral Health Adult Ambulatory Care, director; and Dr. Husam Alathari, Inova CATS (Comprehensive Addiction Treatment Services) Program medical director; Lyn Tomlinson, assistant deputy director, of the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board; and a local VCU student in recovery. A question-and-answer session will follow.

Among those who will be on hand to address questions are Paul Cleveland, FCPD Commander of Organized Crime and Narcotics; Maria Hadjiyane, Inova Behavioral Health Adult Ambulatory Care, director; and other community leaders working on the Fairfax County opioid addiction prevention plan. Also participating will be Ginny Atwood of the Chris Atwood Foundation formed in memory of her brother who battled addiction for six years. 

 Presented by the Unified Prevention Coalition of Fairfax County and the Fairfax County Neighborhood and Community Services