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Black Balloon Day Event
March 6, 2023 @ 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
On March 6, across the US families and loved ones remember and celebrate the lives lost to overdose. This day has become known as Black Balloon Day.
Black Balloon Day has become a national and international event, bringing awareness to overdose deaths. Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. Opioid addiction is driving this epidemic. Americans are more likely to die of an opioid overdose than they are from a car accident or by a gun. Black Balloon Day helps create awareness around the important issue of providing support to those struggling with substance use disorder and their loved ones.
Caldwell County R.E.S.T.A.R.T. will be hosting this event. There will be information tables set up with different resources and information for Substance Use including Narcan, Fentanyl Test Strips, Medication Lock Boxes and other stuff. Several different recovery resources from other counties will be there with tables set up. They will also have something to write names of those we’ve lost to overdose because we’ve all been impacted by these lives lost.
