(WTXL) - Several organizations in South Georgia are coming together to fight the nationwide opioid epidemic on a local level.
Residents from all over south Georgia are encouraged to attend tonight's town hall.
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital and Aspire Health Group are co-organizing the event.
They're also working with State Senators Renee Unterman and Freddie Powell Simms and the Albany-Dougherty County Opioid Task Force.
Addiction is a growing crisis, and organizers say there's only one way to fight it, open dialogue.
Tonight's town hall will run from 6 p.m. To 8 p.m. in the Imagination Theatre across from the Flint Riverquarium.
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