As people with pink, blue and orange chalk on their hands walked away from the steps of Bangor City Hall on Monday, dozens of names dotted the stone stairs in remembrance.

The names, written by the roughly 40 attendees of an Overdose Awareness Day event, were of friends and family members who had died from overdosing.

The event, which was organized by Greater Bangor organizations including Needlepoint Sanctuary, the Mabel Wadsworth Center and Dignity First, included a rally in Pierce Park and a silent vigil outside city hall. Multiple speakers at the rally called for policy changes at every level of government to create more rehabilitation programs, overdose prevention centers and syringe service programs.

Willie Hurley, the executive director of Needlepoint Sanctuary, called on the Ban

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