According to the National Institutes of Health, more than 47,000 Americans died of opioid overdose in 2017, and more than two million Americans live with an addiction to opioids (HEAL Initiative Research Plan, 2019). This epidemic has affected the nation as a whole but hit the states of West Virginia and Ohio the hardest as of 2017 (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2019). Due to widespread effects, the opioid epidemic has received considerable media coverage and societal awareness, for example, scholars found that social media and news outlets have covered the epidemic extensively (Russell, Spencer & Thames, 2018). As coverage of the epidemic spreads, messages have reached platforms like social media (Russell, Spencer & Thames, 2018). This leads to affected family members being inundated by messages about opioid misuse. Despite the number of messages affected families encounter, little is known about the efficacy of such messages.