A local man is on a mission to stop teenagers from making the same mistakes he did with drugs and alcohol. Fort Erie resident Paul Christie is traveling to different high schools in the Niagara area to tell the students how addiction ruined his life.

He hopes that by sharing his story with teenagers, he can keep them from going down the same road that led him to jail, and got him shot and stabbed. "Anybody who tells you this stuff is a good - they're a liar," Mr. Christie told Stamford Collegiate's grade nine and 10 students on Tuesday. "It sucks."

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