GUILDERLAND — An educational heroin forum on Monday, May 18, at the Guilderland Public Library. Beginning at 6:30 p.m., attendees will have the opportunity to tour the Albany County Sheriff’s mobile education center — equipped with a jail cell — to learn about various factors and dangers surrounding drug addiction, ending with incarceration.

At 7 p.m., a presentation on opiate overdose prevention and response will be given by representatives from Catholic Charities’ Project Safe Point program. Participants will learn how to recognize the signs and symptoms of an overdose, understand the risk factors associated with overdose, and learn how to reverse the effects of an overdose with the drug naloxone (narcan). Trained attendees will be given a kit containing naloxone.

The event is being sponsored by Catholic Charities, Senator George Amedore, and Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple, and is hosted by the Guilderland Public Library.

Those who plan to attend should contact Amedore’s office at amedore@nysenate.gov.