"Although we keep a count of our overdoses and fatal overdoses we don't look at any of these numbers as simple statistics, we look at this number as 100 individual lives lost in our Harford County community. One hundred brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, friends, co-workers, neighbors," Gahler wrote in an email. "When you begin to group them all together as a single number, it is easy to lose sight of that fact. We never want to become numb or callous to the reality that these are human beings from our communities, we never want them to just be another 'statistic.'"