STUDENTS HEAR MESSAGE ABOUT METH - PRINCE GEORGE
Date: Sunday, February 24 @ 12:07:31 PST
Topic: Crystal Meth Society


The only people who can push drugs out of schools are students, that's part of the message the Crystal Meth Society of B.C. is delivering in Prince George all week.

The society is talking to students at several local schools about meth as well as addiction in general. With accurate information students can protect themselves and their friends, said society president Mark McLaughlin, father of someone who once lived under the meth spell.

The presentations will reach more than 2,000 local students by the end of the week at PGSS, Kelly Road secondary, Carrier Sekani Family Services, Duchess Park secondary, College Heights secondary, the storefront alternative program and John McInnis junior secondary. There were even more requests for their presentation and they are already making plans to return.

"It tells us there is a large and urgent interest in this subject in Prince George, although I do not for a moment consider this unique to P.G.," said McLaughlin. "I think almost every town in B.C. has a similar feeling about meth."

The students learn facts like what meth is, how it is made, what it does to a person's body, brain and behaviour, what the symptoms are among one's friends, what its addiction looks like, and how to get out if you're in, McLaughlin said.

This seems like a perfect time for the presentation considering how concerned many in the public were following the teen dance event at CN Centre last week that had emergency responders active with drug and alcohol incidents.

Some of those who attended said the drug "ecstasy" was prevalent but McLaughlin had a sharp warning about that synthetic narcotic.

"In B.C. studies, 70 per cent or more of the ecstasy seized by police tests hot for meth, so it is a huge chance that if you're using ecstasy you are also unknowingly taking meth. And it is also cut into cocaine."





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