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The goal of today's project is really just to bring awaren... And has overdosed?

And know anybody in recovery?

Do you guys know a lot of people your age that are using dru... And of course, I know about other schools, it's in the ar... there is an addiction there, or, and because of that, a lot... for each step you take, you have to rethink the steps you... And this is coming from my personal experiences.

do... you know, you get caught vaping you won't be able to go to ... for how we're talking about people do it so casually.

L...

I think that it's happening.

But that's again, the scary thing.

Ma... by giving you something else to focus on.

Yeah.

Taking the p...

I do see a lot of the special needs.

Students get made fun... Or was my school it's not as much bullying as just avoida... Because you don't know what someone's going through.

... Naloxone, a lot of people have heard of naloxone, it'... a lot of people my age, are very destructive towards themselves and to the peo... just almost scared to like, get out of it and better themselv... or spread the awareness.

I mean, what is spreading awaren...

So that's not really talked about either about if you... fit on my own until my junior year of high school.

And then I was finally able to see a therapist and I was a... recovering.

You know, social media.

I mentioned earlier t...

I think social media can be good, and really, really b... Don't have social media at all have never had it.

But I th... when it's used the right way, how it was designed to be us...

In the same ways.

So like, being able to follow your favorite create gr...

They're like, that's their job, their job is to make themsel... You can see what your friends are doing.

You can talk more people, but at the same time that has ...

There's probably an underlying fear that if they ask for he... As you're starting to get older, and now you're figuring out w...

I look forward or go to college and become a lawyer.

And j... once you decide, oh, I don't really know.

Yeah.

If you're good at anything, it's profitable, you can mak...

I feel like it's stressful, because there's such a weight... you may not ever want to give up on trying to reach it.

But ... yeah, I do boy growing up, there's definitely pressu... Yeah, that's when we were so when you're like, 12, it's a...

I kind of have paved with that a little bit.

Like were born i... you're starting walking around here, you're already you... more things and in that sense, you have to grow up quicker.

And I believe t... You know, just careers and everything like this is playing into the ol...

I just think that we have to grow up had to grow up fast...

When I look towards my future mark is like, it's easier for... you don't stress as much about your future, because you k...

In your head, you're never going to treat yourself kindly, alm... And so if we are surrounding ourselves with the wrong peop... be at it all the time.

Don't like change who you are ... we are more creative.

I think that.

With that being said, I feel like there's a lot of positivity that can be spread.

Wide gathers a lot of young creators now.

You know, there's obviously celebrities and, you kn... you might have you might be in a low point in your life or you know, you might not be feeling the greatest right ... We just need a little bit more help.

Now just know that one way or another I'm gonna get to wher...

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