PRINTER'S NO. 3209
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
691
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY HILL-EVANS, KIM, DONATUCCI, SCHLOSSBERG, MURT,
FREEMAN, KORTZ, SONNEY, HOHENSTEIN, JONES, BURNS, MILLARD,
POLINCHOCK, ULLMAN, PASHINSKI, HOWARD, KINSEY, ROEBUCK,
YOUNGBLOOD AND CONKLIN, JANUARY 30, 2020
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES, JANUARY 30, 2020
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing March 6, 2020, as "Black Balloon Day" in
Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, "Black Balloon Day" is a national event originally
organized by Diane and Lauren Hurley in remembrance of Greg
Tremblay, a father of four and brother-in-law of Lauren, who
died of a drug overdose at 38 years of age on March 6, 2015; and
WHEREAS, Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental
deaths in the United States; and
WHEREAS, For the first time in United States history, the
odds of dying from an accidental opioid overdose are greater
than dying in a motor vehicle crash; and
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania experienced 4,491 drug-related overdose
deaths in 2018 that were ruled accidental or undetermined, which
represents a rate of 35 deaths per 100,000 people age 0 to 99
among individual counties; and
WHEREAS, Between 2015 and 2018, there was a 36% increase in
the number of drug-related overdose deaths in Pennsylvania; and
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