The Community Action for a Substance Free Youth (CASFY) group run by Lymes’ Youth Service Bureau (LYSB) will host a Lyme-Old Lyme Community Forum titled, “Spotlight on Heroin-The Opioid Crisis: Identifying Community Solutions to Treat and Prevent Addiction,” at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School auditorium.

Panelists will include prevention and treatment experts, and residents affected by opiate addiction. The forum will discuss facts and fiction about addiction and opiates, recovery successes and challenges, treatment options, safety advice for the community, and how families and friends can support addicts and those at risk of addiction.

The panel will incldue Karen Butterworth, MSN, RN, regional director of Emergency Services, Hartford Healthcare/Backus Hospital; Angela Duhaime, MA, Southeastern Regional Action Council; Julienne Giard, LCSW, director, Evidence Based-Practices & Grants, DMHAS; Christa Quattromani, MA, L+M Hospital, administrator, Shine A Light on Heroin; Michele Rollins, RPh, pharmacist; and four Lyme-Old Lyme residents affected by addiction

This program is free and open to the public.  All are welcome at this important event for our community.

For more information, contact LYSB at (860) 434-7208 or visit www.lysb.org.