TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -
While the world mourns the loss of pop icon Whitney Houston, a group of recovering drug addicts and their family members plan to meet at Brandi Fenton Memorial Park at 5:30 tonight, to highlight the serious-ness of addiction and how it has overtaken communities and destroyed families.
The group has termed today as Black Monday, and plan to release balloons to remember those suffering from and those lost to addiction.
The effort was created by a Tucson mother, Janice Nargi, whose son is a heroin addict, and is current in jail. Nargi started a Facebook group to spread word about the event, and word has spread all over the world.
Communities throughout the world plan to hold similar balloon releasing ceremonies to remember those we have lost to addiction.
The page is titled "there is no hero in heroin" and is a private page.
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