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The newspaper headlines, radio reports, and television stories about the opiate and heroin problem in Vermont are hard to ignore. I have received emails and telephone calls from prevention colleagues and friends and family expressing their concern for Vermont.
As the director of a substance-abuse prevention coalition, I see all this attention as an opportunity to engage the community in open dialogue, to share information about preventing misuse and abuse of all substances, and to possibly implement prevention strategies and solutions for our community.
Did you know that according to the 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 1 in 5 Windham Southeast high-school students have misused a prescription stimulant or opiate not prescribed to them at least once, and that 1 in 10 have done so in the past 30 days?
Now is the time to address teen prescription drug misuse in our community.
