We had some awesome entries in the PSA contest this year! Here are the top 3 winners.

First Place winners were Angela, Carly, Rachael and Laken from Ms. Tyler’s class.
Don’t Drown

Second Place winners were Timothy, Zach, Eddie, Aaron and Luke from Ms. Tyler’s class.
Throw Those Away

Third Place winners were Jesse, Taylor, Terry and Rachael from Ms. Tyler’s class.
Triple D

adapted from www.drugstory.org:

How he was introduced to drugs…
I first used nicotine when I was 11 or 12 and then marijuana, and that was a month before my 13th birthday. I got into alcohol later on that same year.

How his problems escalated…
When I first started using it was really sporadic. My grandfather’s death later that same year when I was 13 kind of triggered up more emotions that I kind of wanted to run from. I tried to use on a regular basis as much as possible. If I had to steal alcohol from my parents I would do that. I would try to cop as much marijuana as I could from friends.

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I actually did find it very difficult to hang out with her [her friend] after a while because I had never used drugs before – and that’s something I really believe in – that I think that drugs and alcohol have a huge impact on your academic life and your social life and when you begin to use them you lose your priorities in your academic career. She started hanging out with people I wasn’t interested in hanging out with, but I was her friend and we had a great connection, and I wanted to make sure that I didn’t let drugs and alcohol get in the way of our friendship.

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