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Rotary In Review
Rotary in Review
26 January 2024A roundup of Rotary news
Responding to the growing opioid threat
In the past decade, the opioid crisis has tightened its grip on communities across the United States. More than 80,000 people have died of overdoses involving opioids in 2022, almost quadruple the total in 2010. Most experts place the start of the crisis in the 1990s, when millions of patients began receiving prescriptions for powerful painkillers like OxyContin. Around the mid-2010s, a synthetic opioid, illicit fentanyl, started to spread. Fentanyl is easier to produce than heroin and up to 50 times as potent, making it much easier for people to accidentally take too much. Read what Rotary clubs are doing to prevent accidental overdose deaths and combat the crisis.
 
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At home in an adoptive land
In 2005, a handful of expats – mostly from the United States – chartered the Rotary Club of San Miguel de Allende-Midday, Mexico. Channeling their time and resources into service projects, club members have worked alongside their adoptive community to provide clean drinking water to the surrounding countryside and empower young girls and women. Through their service, members have formed friendships beyond the expat community that they might not have otherwise. Read more about the club in Rotary magazine.
Making our clubs simply irresistible
President-elect Stephanie A. Urchick is calling upon Rotary members to make their clubs “simply irresistible” to community members seeking service and fellowship. She calls on members to use Rotary’s Action Plan to assess where they are and where they need to go. Urchick talks about her priorities in an interview with Rotary magazine. Tom Gump, presidential aide to Urchick, further breaks down the concept in his blog post for Rotary Voices.
Past RI President Ray Klinginsmith dies
Ray Klinginsmith, 2010-11 Rotary International President who made it his focus to help clubs become bigger, better, and bolder, has died at the age of 86. Read more.
 
 
Download IA speeches and videos
Download speeches and videos from the 2024 International Assembly to prepare for the coming Rotary year.
 
 

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