Thirty eight year old, David Parnell, relives his poison past imprisoned by drugs--including methamphtamine.

David Parnell told his battling story and the dangers of methamphetamine use to a packed auditorium at PAS Wednesday afternoon for Red Ribbon Week.

Through his horrendous path steering in and out of drug abuse and rehab, he decided to take his mistakes and put them before kids so that they might learn the tremendous dangers of drugs, more particularly meth.

Parnell began what ended up a 23-year battle with drug use at the age of 13 with marijuana. By the time he reached his senior year, his promising basketball career dribbled out of bounds with drugs taking over his life. He was using cocaine and drinking on the weekends.

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