2025 Carroll County Fentanyl Awareness Summit

Carroll County is facing a fentanyl crisis. Dozens of residents are dying each year from fentanyl-related overdose deaths.

It’s become a crisis. It’s time to make our stand.

Hosted by the Carroll County Fentanyl Awareness Coalition and participating sponsors, the 2025 Fentanyl Awareness Summit will feature:

• Speakers and commentary from addiction experts and local law enforcement leaders, including Brian Gibson, LPC, CPCS, ICA ADC, ACS, MATS; Lindsey Sizemore, CPS-AD; and Carroll County Coroner Keith Hancock
• Education about fentanyl in our communities
• Testimonies from those who have lost loved ones to fentanyl overdose and from those who have survived and recovered from it
• Vendors

Join us for this day powerful day of education and hope. Lunch is provided.

Please plan to arrive by 8:40 a.m. to ensure time to sign in and receive your T-shirt before the program begins.

What is fentanyl?

A powerful synthetic opioid 100 times stronger than morphine and 50 times stronger than heroine, fentanyl was initially developed to relieve pain in cancer patients or following surgery. Because of its strength, fentanyl is extremely addictive. Because the drug can easily be mixed with other street drugs to increase their potency, it’s being found as the cause of more overdose deaths. Fentanyl can slow breathing — and stop it altogether. The spread of the drug is seen both locally and nationally as a public health crisis.