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Aiming to curb drug abuse, new program will teach teens the science of addiction
Last Updated: Wednesday July 28, 2021
(Washington Post, Oct. 25) A new program rolled out by DEA and Discovery Education aims to teach teens about drugs through a new approach. It will show teens the dangers by showing them the science. Rather than "just say no," this adds an addition answer to the question of "why." This debuted at a high school in Virginia's Fairfax County, where a student had died in 2013 from trying heroin for the first time. READ MORE.