Task force in action tomorrow night

Information on Oconee’s opioid epidemic will be disseminated tomorrow night during a two-hour event at Seneca’s Northside Elementary School. Darrin Thomas, chairman of the county’s Prisma Health opioid response task force, hopes any family member or anyone who has had to face this issue will come between 6 and 8 o’clock tomorrow night to hear a panel discussion and pickup material that could be important to you to ensure that your or a loved one doesn’t become an addict. Thomas framed Oconee’s problem this way: Of 20 rural counties surveyed, numbers showed Oconee with the second highest rate of opioid deaths