TAAP Program Teaches Teens Medical Dangers Of Drug Use And Addiction

In an effort to teach teen-agers about the dangers of drugs, the Teen Addiction Awareness Program is now being offered to juvenile offenders at the Lee County Juvenile Detention Center.

"It's a concentrated program of intensive educational and prevention and intervention teaching on the realities of illegal drug and alcohol abuse," said Dody Vail, executive director of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence of Northeast Mississippi. NCADD sponsors the TAAP program.

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