Podcast: Drug abuse among local teens

Last October, Stephanie Shepard lost her son, age 18, to a drug overdose.  Since then, she has formed a nonprofit Hope Above Fear to establish a youth inpatient rehab in Escambia County.  She is running three surveys to provide the county’s Opioid Task Force with data on opioid/fentanyl abuse among local children ages 19 and under.

 

 

Parent Substance Abuse Survey – this is for parents who currently have children ages 13-19 who have in the past or are currently struggling with substance abuse.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FGP9C7B

Youth Substance Abuse Survey – this is for youth ages 13-19 who have struggled or know a peer who has struggled with substance abuse.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7BS25YN

Relative Substance Abuse Survey – this is for a relative (grandparent, aunt, uncle, brother, sister, niece, nephew, cousin) who has had a relative or currently has a relative between the age of 13-19 struggling with substance abuse.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FGG7CHC

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Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”