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Opioid Crisis Adds Urgency to Drug Prevention Education
Last Updated: Wednesday July 28, 2021
(Boston.com, May 14) New Hampshire is entertaining proposals to require tougher drug education for students in the wake of the opioid crisis nationwide. Education would begin as early as kindergarten. Ninety-four percent of addicts began as early as age 12, which means prevention efforts should begin even earlier than that. It's important to get an entire community's support behind ridding the neighborhoods of drugs. READ MORE.