Editor:

To the young people of Carroll County, including the college students here; recently I received news of the death of a third cousin of mine, a 24-year-old woman, due to a drug overdose.

Perhaps she was one of the "lucky ones," She could have survived this overdose with brain damage, which would have left her a vegetable. Or, she could have lived through this ordeal as a quadriplegic, unable to walk or feed herself.

I have read that some young people say, "Well, my parents drink alcohol, which is a drug, so what is the difference if I take drugs?"

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