More than half of the near two thousand students in the most recent National Council on Substance Abuse survey have admitted to drug use.
With statistics pointing to children using drugs as early as age seven, a national effort is being made to weed out this trend.
For this reason, the Massy Foundation and the NCSA have come together, to host Project SOFT, or Safeguarding Our Future Today.
Sharika Griffith has the details.
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