TEENS RESIST DRUGS & ALCOHOL!

Her son died from a drug overdose. Now she saves lives wherever she speaks. When she finishes, auditoriums reverberate with enthusiastic applause! Teens and parents reunite as families! Her words follow... “Here are the main stories that I bring to my audience...either teenagers or adults.... 1. Alycia...the reason I joined the fight against drunk driving. She was walking with a group of friends to play basketball and was crossing at the green. A drunk driver doing 60 in a 40mph zone hit her, carried her on the hood of his car for 185 feet as he swerved left and right to get her off...he then took off. She was killed instantly and the twists and turns in her story are riveting. She had entered a Miss PreTeen Sarasota contest and her speech was about alcohol and how it ruins lives...(her dad was an alcoholic) and she won the contest and died 2 months later! This story is about 20 minutes long as I tell of the "ripple effect" of how that one person's decision to drink and drive changed so many lives along the way. The guy was only 24 and never in trouble before and got 20 years in prison. 2. Christopher...a young man my daughter met in 1995 while she lived in N.C. I tried to help him with his addiction to drugs...and had him tell me his story. It is very sad...his parents lost custody of all three boys when he was just 4 and he grew up in a children's home. He lived on the streets from the time he was 14. I lost touch with him and found him again in 1999 and he was incarcerated for obstruction of justice and harboring a criminal. His girlfriend was pregnant with his child and he lied and said he did not know where she was. During those 6 last months of his incarceration I mentored him...sending him college prep books. encouraging him to get his GED which he passed on the first try..and having him write his life story for me. It was long and sad as each week he would send me handwritten accounts of his life. He got out of jail in August of 99...had a job within a week and was in community college within two weeks. His little boy the joy of his life. I helped him buy a car and he wanted to know how he could repay my kindness...I told him to remember my birthday...just 16 days away ... November 26. He did not call on my birthday...he DIED on my birthday. Some drug dealer sold him heroin with common household ajax in it. he had been clean until then...but got upset when he could not see his child... 3. Jeremiah...a young man who always had to one up everyone in anything he did. Handsome, well built and charismatic...he had just signed a lucrative modeling contract with a company in California...and was moving there after he graduated high school. One night he and a friend picked those "magic mushrooms" and made a concoction. The friend had a half glass..he had to do a full one. He tripped really badly and his friend...not wanting to deal with him...dropped him off on I-75 a major highway. He started jogging down the road and a car hit him and he went right through the windshield and killed the driver instantly as his head met hers....she had a 2 year old in the back seat...and luckily a friend in the passenger seat who had to literally push his bloody head out the window and try to stop the car and help his girlfriend....she died instantly. 4. Crystal...a 16 year old driving her sister to their moms early in the morning and then going to work. She came upon a little hill in the road and at the crest met up with a van driving on the wrong side of the road. She did defensive driving and saved the life of her sister but not her own...she was killed instantly as the wheels of the van came up and over the car and crushed her. Her dad came upon the accident 5 mins later on his way to work. The lady was so drunk at 6:30 a.m. that when she got out of the car beer cans littered the road. she thought she was heading to St. Pete...in the opposite direction and she was on the wrong roadway...she had been drinking all night because of a fight with a boyfriend. Til the day of her sentencing...she still says those kids were on the wrong side of the road. 5. The young 18 year old who was driving home and a car hit her from behind and her car left the road and hit a tree...she would have lived but she was not wearing a seatbelt and got ejected from the moonroof. This is the story where I ask if they always, sometimes or never wear a seatbelt and they get smarties, dum dum lollipops or airhead candies depending on their answer. 6. The young lady who called and wanted to know if we wanted her smashed car. She was driving home from work and a drunk driver hit her and crushed her legs. Her job? She was a singer and dancer at Busch Gardens. 7. Ricardo...the young man who dabbled in drugs but never anything as strong as heroin. Someone stopped by his house and offered it to him. He sniffed it...and started acting strange and convulsing...the one guy said he was not liking how Ricardo was handling the drug...the "pusher" said..."oh...they all act like that the first time" and left him there to die alone. 8...My son, Brett, was a personal trainer at Gold's Gym...into health and fitness and always harping on me to eat better. He had a bad breakup with a girl...who had introduced recreational drugs into their relationship (mostly painkillers) and he got addicted very quickly. A friend of his from high school told him that she would sell him heroin and give him less and less and it would be easier to get off. He had tried a program and that did not work for him. He died on Father's Day june 19, 2005 of a drug overdose. What a remarkable and loved young man he was...wanting to help everyone. yet he had a sadness in him from the loss of his Dad at a young age (6) and his passing on Father's Day was especially hard. I have so many letters from him which show his love of me and life. I miss him every day...he had just signed up for Fire School and was determined to be drug free and enter the school in the fall. I will send others as I think of them...these are the main ones I use. I use snippets of others if the time warrants. When I go to a school...I usually do three and a video...my drunk driving goggles and a question and answer period. I tailor my speech to the audience...always able to sense what it is they really need to hear. The following letters were only a few unsolicited expressions of gratitude. Hundreds were sent in, but a few are representative of the strong emotional response! * * *

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