Protecting Our Youth: The Urgency of Teaching Drug Awareness in Schools

Using a classroom full of kids in the 14 to 18 age group a week to this all week. And at least a quarter of them are linked directly to a counterfeit pill, and 66% of those had somebody around that either couldn’t or didn’t respond. That to me is staggering. That’s huge. Two out of three, there was another human there that potentially could have prevented that. So are we gonna see the numbers go down because we’re teaching people what to look at and what to do?

I pray. Me, too. I pray. And that they know what it looks like is not what it is. There are so many things that need to be fixed and need to be done, and that all takes time. But why don’t we just warn these kids right now in the meantime, we can work on those things, too, simultaneously. But in the meantime, we need boots on the ground. Talking ticket kids, right? Because there’s gonna be a kid tomorrow night that gets a Xanx or an oxycodone or something that thinks it’s a real prescription that’s not going to wake up the next day. And if we can talk to them and stop that from happening, then we can save a life. And if I could prevent one family from going through you guys have gone through, then it’s worth any minute that it takes for me to do any of the communication.