On
Tuesday, April 7, New Jersey Foot & Ankle Center’s Community Outreach
Director Brielle Takacs was a guest speaker at the Fight Marijuana Event. Other guest speakers included retired NYPD Detective
Michael Zotto and President of the Foundation for a Drug-Free World, New York
Chapter, Dr. Bernard Fialkoff.
These
leaders in the community spoke about their dedication to keeping children off
drugs through the largest nongovernmental anti-drug education initiative in the
world.
According
to a 2011 survey by the Office of Adolescent Health, 37 percent of high school students
in New Jersey admitted to using marijuana one or more times during their
life. Zotto, who has spent years working
with people in recovery, spoke about the relation of marijuana use to the heroin
epidemic.
The Foundation’s
campaign is unique in the fact that it empowers youth and adults with factual
information about drugs so they can make informed decisions and live
drug-free. Young adults do not like to
be lectured about what they can or cannot do, therefore, the Foundation provides
the facts that empower youth to choose not to take drugs in the first place.
A
sergeant who uses the materials daily in his work said: “Everything in the
Truth About Drugs curriculum is pure gold. There is no message about drug abuse
that is more penetrating than what this program provides—we can’t top it.”
New Jersey Foot and Ankle Center is located at 550 Kinderkamack Road in Oradell, NJ 07649. As a premiere podiatry practice in Bergen County, Dr. Dan Margolin and his staff have treated over 25,000 patients coming from places as close as Paramus, Emmerson, Hackensack, River Edge, New Milford, Teaneck, Hillsdale, Ridgewood, Westwood, or as far as New York City and South Jersey. Give us a call at 201-261-9445 if you have any questions or visit us online at www.heelpain911.com and www.njfootpain.com.
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