Some say that their "friends" bring bottles of pills to school. Other say that when they are out with friends some try to entice them with liquor including vodka.
After a few minutes with Kim Matone Community Organizer for Charlotte Mecklenburg Drug Free Coalition and Marcella Young, a Prevention Specialist with Anuvia we learned that our girls have been exposed to a multitude of situations that are dangerous to their health and deadly to their lives.
The girls were challenged to come up with ways to help their "community" (school) with alcohol and drug abuse. Their ideas are below:
-Education (parents and students) by using assemblies, videos and posters
-Self decisions
-Empowerment (posters)
-Talking with counselors (support)
-Experience (goggles, ABC officers)
-Friends
Remember to encourage your children, friends and family to say no to alcohol and drug abuse!!!
For more information about alcohol and drug abuse prevention please visit the following websites and get involved in prevention.
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| Anuvia Prevention & Recovery Center is a nonprofit serving Charlotte and Mecklenburg County with alcohol and drug education, prevention, assessment and treatment services. The agency is more than 50 years old and has been known as The Chemical Dependency Center, The Randolph Clinic and the Charlotte Council on Alcoholism. Roughly 20,000 people are impacted by Anuvia's services each year, from children and teens to parents and educators to people with court-related problems and people who have an alcohol or drug dependency http://www.anuvia.org/index.php |
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| Charlotte Mecklenburg is an active, vibrant, diverse community that promotes collective and individual responsibility for wellness and fosters safe, healthy and substance abuse free lifestyle for children and adults. http://drugfreecharlotte.org/aboutus.asp |
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