Police aim to tackle addiction

Drug busts and teen over­doses aren’t a glar­ing prob­lem at Welling­ton High School, but addic­tion is still a very real concern.

To help stu­dents bat­tle drug and alco­hol addic­tion, offi­cials have con­tracted with Lorain County Alco­hol and Drug Abuse Services.

“Any­one who says there aren’t these prob­lems in their school is bury­ing their head in the sand,” said prin­ci­pal Christo­pher Wert. “We just want to give peo­ple a resource for deal­ing with them.”

Pre­ven­tion spe­cial­ist Joel Reich­lin will be on hand every Mon­day from 12:30-4:30 p.m. to lis­ten to any prob­lems stu­dents or adults might have with drugs or alcohol.

The con­cerns could be about friends, fam­ily, cowork­ers, or even them­selves, said Reich­lin in a let­ter to the Welling­ton school board.

This is an excerpt. For more on this story, read the Dec. 13, 2012 print edi­tion of the Welling­ton Enterprise.

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