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DEA agent meets with Ridgewood parents, discusses student drug abuse
November 26, 2014 Last updated: Wednesday, November 26, 2014, 9:42 AM
By Jodi Weinberger
Staff Writer |
The Ridgewood News
The most dangerous words from a parent, said retired Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Douglas S. Collier, are “not my child.”
In a presentation titled “The Perfect Storm: Battling the Prescription Drug and Heroin Epidemic,” Collier explained how this type of thinking contributes to the widespread use of opiates in the state.
“The importance is to raise awareness of parents who think it can’t touch them,” Collier said before his presentation.
This event, held last Tuesday at Benjamin Franklin Middle School, is part of the district’s Community Outreach Program with events scheduled throughout the year on a range of topics from technology, to drug use, exercise and financial literacy.
The heroin epidemic reaches beyond New Jersey, Collier said, and is a result of what he called “a nation of users.”
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