P.C. Coalition for Healthy Choices: National Drug Fact Week

National Drug Facts Week is an opportunity for teens, to shatter the myths about drugs and drug abuse. This year, it runs the week of January 25th-31st. In community and school events all over Amer-ica, teens, scientists and other experts will come together for an honest conversation about how drugs affect the brain, body and behavior. Drug Fact Week was launched in 2010 by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The purpose was to counteract myths that teens get from the internet, TV, movies, music or friends.

About a third of high school se...