Using videos, photos, maps, graphs, charts and testimonials, some of the Metro East’s top law enforcers gave a presentation last week at Collinsville Middle School about the dangers of heroin use and prescription drug abuse.
It was the stories from parents who have lost their children and from a Waterloo teen who battled and beat her own heroin addiction that seemed to make the biggest impact on the seventh- and eighth-graders.
I can’t stress this enough: Don’t try it. Not even once. Please just don’t do it, 19-year-old Courtney Fiessinger told the…read more: http://www.stltoday.com/suburban-journals/illinois/news/collinsville-middle-schoolers-warned-about-the-dangers-of-heroin/article_8ab884da-cf85-5a85-8a5a-f4137328ccb2.html