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JCPS Students Schooled On Opioids

Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation

On Tuesday Jefferson County Public Schools, the DEA and the Mark Walhberg Foundation held a city-wide summit on opioids for 8th and 9th graders.

WFPL’s Lisa Gillespie reports that the morning was full of speakers telling personal stories, music and messages that went beyond the traditional, ‘don’t do drugs.’

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