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Article: Holmes County Prevention coalition works to educate on drug tolerance trends
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- Daily Record, The Wooster, OH
- Article date:
- December 16, 2007
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By NICK SABO
Staff Writer
MILLERSBURG -- The death of a West Holmes student from a
prescription drug overdose represents an increasing trend of young
people using prescription drugs, a problem that an emerging
coalition hopes to address through preventive means.
Backed by two years of data and research, the Holmes County
Prevention Coalition is assembling community resources to address
existing ideas that are tolerant of certain forms of substance abuse
in teens and young people. Building on community groups, businesses
and individuals, the group hopes to battle these perceptions, or
"norms," in a community that encourage substance abuse as an
acceptable behavior.
"It's the idea that hosting ...