Pubdate: Sun, 19 Oct 2014
Source: Concord Monitor (NH)
Copyright: 2014 Monitor Publishing Company
Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/WbpFSdHB
Website: http://www.concordmonitor.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/767
Author: Joseph Giunta

THE DRUG BATTLE

Each year in October, the Elks honor the memory of slain DEA Special 
Agent Enrique S. Camerena with a Red Ribbon Campaign.

Camerena was kidnapped, tortured and killed because he was 
successfully investigating one of the largest drug trafficking 
organizations in Mexico.

The Elks Drug Awareness Program has launched a national campaign to 
ask our leaders in Washington to uphold our nation's drug laws and to 
remind everyone, especially our youth, of the dangers of using any 
illicit drug.

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of 
America has the largest all-volunteer drug awareness program in the country.

For more than 31 years, the Elks have been providing educational 
materials to children, parents and schools at no cost.

The Elks are asking for President Obama's help in sending a message 
that drugs are dangerous, that drug use leads to drug addiction and 
that a hopeful future is one free of addiction. The Elks goal is to 
send 200,000 Red Ribbon Week posts cards by Oct. 15. To learn more, 
visit elks.org.

JOSEPH GIUNTA

Sanbornton

(The writer is chairman of the New Hampshire Elks Association drug 
awareness program.)
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