Crime & Safety

Lockport Grad Recalls Friends Lost to Drugs (Video)

Lisa, a Lockport Township High School graduate saw several peers succumb to drugs, some before they could graduate high school. She shared her story for several teens and adolescents at the Blink of an Eye seminar.

Lisa has opportunities.

The former Lockport Township High School student completed college, and will soon be traveling to Ghana, Africa to further her goals. When she was a teenager, she drank at parties along with several of her friends.

But she decided to quit. Not all of her peers did the same.

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Some have not made it college, and have trouble holding down a steady job.

Others have since died because of drugs.

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