The Drug Enforcement Agency Rocky Mountain Division and members of the Army National Guard will visit roughly 42 schools in the Denver metro area to talk to students about the importance of saying no to drugs. via AmyWadas
DENVER — This year, President Joe Biden proclaimed October as National Youth Substance Use Prevention Month. The White House said a record 107,000 Americans died of a drug overdose last year — more than a thousand of those were teenagers.
While the helicopter stole the show for the kids at Sherrelwood Elementary, the real message behind the effort is to teach students about the dangers of drugs. It's all part of Red Ribbon Week, which takes place at the end of the month. It's a campaign that encourages young people in communities and schools across the nation to live drug-free by wearing red ribbons and participating in drug events.
The DEA says it's so important to teach kids to say stay away from substances they don't know about beginning at a young age.
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