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In celebration of red ribbon week, the partners for a drug free milford miami township sponsored a 2013 red ribbon week drug free essay contest for students in grades 5 through 12 who attended milford schools.  this year’s red ribbon week theme was a healthy me is drug free.   one winner was selected from each grade, with the exception of 7th grade.  all winners received a $50 gift card to walmart and names of the winners will appear in the milford miami advertiser. Contestants in grades 5 through 6 wrote about the theme a healthy me is drug free.   contestants submitted an original written essay that addressed making smart choices about not using drugs and  why they will try to discourage others from using drugs. Contestants in grades 7 through 12 wrote about how and why they choose to live a healthy, drug free lifestyle.  contestants submitted an original written essay that addressed the negative effects that drugs have had on friends, family, or the community and  how and why they choose to live drug free. If you have any questions, please contact stacy mathis at 513 576 2267  or [email protected].

12th grade winner brittney lovdal, milford high school remaining drug free as a high school senior in 2013 is not easy, and while i may be sacrificing some things i have learned that in the end it is worth it. I am sure we are all aware that milford does not offer much for teens to do on a saturday night, and the go to activity is for a group of friends to gather around and get high or drunk together. Drugs have taken over, it is what the majority of the conversations in the hallway are about. It is so common that students are even upfront about it to their teachers and parents. It has become a social norm, and people just do not even blink twice when they hear about it. Although it has become somewhat accepted in our community it still has negative consequences. The ones that influenced myself the most are how it would affect my relationship with my parents.

I have looked forward to college since forever and many teenagers forget about how drugs will dumb them down and make them forget about the importance of school. I have sat back and lost friends because i was too lame for them once they turned to the life of partying. I have even had to distance myself from my half sister and mother because i knew that the lifestyle they lived were a bad influence on me. I did not want to go through high school thinking getting high or drunk every night was normal. Instead i have had to find other ways to spend my time for me working is the best way to forget about the high school experience that i am missing out on. I have made sacrifices in high school to remain drug free, however it has already helped me accomplish so much and i know that remaining clean will be a huge step towards reaching a better future me.

11th grade winner sam plante, milford high school ever since we were little kids listening to our elementary teachers telling us that drugs are a bad thing, we have known that drugs can have an extremely negative effect on the life and well being of ourselves and those around us. A thing seem in eighties movies that became extinct with the use of proper education and reason. No matter how educated we as people may be on the negative effects on drugs, the reasons for starting are still there. Life is still harder for some of us then it seems to be for everyone else and it is still hard to learn to deal with the ever changing life and fast pace of modern society. This is what draws teens to try the first cigarette, the first shot, the first pill.

After those first few tries, it’s the addiction that keeps teens coming back into their adulthood. The unfortunate reality is, the teenagers who involve themselves with drugs and alcohol lose much more than the teen angst they are attempting to extinguish. Their once bright and curious expressions have been glazed over with the overwhelming sense of exhaustion and doused with heavy perfume to cover the underlying smoke and booze. Instead of learning to deal with misfortune, the teenagers in which worry us most make decisions to try to escape. Just the other day, i had to find a teacher to break up a fight in the hallway between two boys who i knew had stoner reputations. When i brought it up with a friend, he said, who really cares? they are just stoners anyways.

That sounds cliché, but when humans are finding new ways to look down upon other humans, i don’t want to be a part of that society anymore. I chose not to do drugs because i don’t want to let it affect the people around me. If i ever did drugs, i could ruin my parents lives, my friends’ lives, my sisters’ lives, and most obviously my own life: and i know that i just couldn’t live with that. 10th grade winner erica arnold, milford high school i live a drug free life because of the experience i went through in life with my family. Then the court and cps threaten to take us away from her if she were to hit us again.

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She stopped drinking and started going to counseling and alcohol anonymous meetings every evening. She made friends that supported her and helped her get through her regular drinking lifestyle. Because i have yet to forgive her, we fight every day, causing a negative environment for not only my mother and i, but my siblings and father as well. I choose not to drink because i’m afraid i’ll act out like she did and become a failure in life.

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This also had a negative impact on my father because she started seeing other guys. We all cried because we thought we weren’t going have a father or mother figure in our lives anymore. We were also afraid we would have to live on the streets and fight to have clothes on our backs and to be fed.

After the horrible experience, my parents got back to get together my mom started attending more meetings to get more help with her drug abuse. Because my mother chose to do drugs, she messed career up for a while, she had worked at mcdonald’s for years, causing us kids to be stuck inside until my father came home. My family may have gone through rough times in life, but through it all, we all stayed strong and became a family again. I’m thankful that she made time in her life to get help, keep her kids safe, and go back to school to help her family’s needs.

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9th grade winner olivia kalton, milford high school i have chosen to live a drug free life, not because adults have told me it’s bad for you. This essay will not even touch a portion of how drugs have affected my life, my sister, my cousins, and especially the adults in my family that have chosen drugs over us. I’m about to introduce you to the monster that lived inside my life for so many years. For a long time it was manageable, so i am going to skip to the past year for sake of time. She would rather be on the streets so she can shoot heroin every day, because she says she is scared.

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To be sober, or what i don’t understand, why? lastly, my aunt, she has lost custody of all her children, in and out of jail, and i have lost count of how many times my cousins have changed school, it is pathetic at least once a year. We had to live with crack pipes, needles, meth, heroin, strangers in our home, and not knowing what going to happen next. Everyone that has been touched with this demon that lives in our lives has been scared. So now that you know a portion of my story, i tell you i want to live a drug free life because i deserve more in life than what i have been given. I believe that seeing addiction first hand has gave me a better opportunity to live a free and sober life. 8th grade winner helly patel, milford junior high school there are many reasons as to why i live drug free.

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