Schools throughout Butler County have a number of programs to help students make healthy lifestyle choices.
These may include dealing with negative peer pressure, bullyi...
A gang is a group of teens and young adults that hang out together and are involved in violent, illegal or criminal activity.
Gangs generally give themselves a common na...
Diseases known to be caused by smoking has expanded to include:
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AORTIC ANEURYSMS, LEUKEMIA, CATARACTS, PNEUMONIA AND GUM DISEASE.
• Chewing tobacco increases the...
Many kids start at age 13
Binge drinking is the ingesting of large quanities of alcohol in a relatively short period of time with the main purpose of getting drunk
It ca...
In January the Butler County District Attorney's office took the initiative in organizing fatal crash reconstructionists as a team to work in a similar way to the DUI Ta...
Crisis Calls
800-292-3866
Butler Memorial Hospital Emergency Room
724-284-4545
Butler County Drug and Alcohol Program
724-284-5114
Center for Community Resources
724...
Know where your teens are AND what they are doing
• Maintain an environment of open and honest communication in your home as a weapon for preventing a drug problem from e...
Allegheny-Clarion Valley High School selected Casey McBride as homecoming king and Alicia Palmer as homecoming queen during festivities Friday night during the A-C Valle...
If you have questions about this topic, call the Butler County Drug and Alcohol Program at 724-284-5114 or the county's drug tip line at 866-363-3784.
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• The drug, which is not found in nature, was created by scientists looking for a non-addictive substitute for morphine. The result — heroin — is a drug with four times ...
