Middlesex District Attorney And Partnerships For Youth Launch Public Awareness Campaign On Oxycontin®/ Heroin Abuse

One of the primary roles for Middlesex Partners for Youth (MPY) is that of prevention education; alerting parents, teachers, administrators and community members of alarming trends in youth, adolescent and teen issues. Sadly, our office, police officers and school personnel continue to hear and see that the abuse of opiates, especially heroin and prescription medications like Oxycontin®, is on the rise. Too many tragedies have already occurred from the use of these drugs.

The video has received much praise from the school and community personnel who are using it. In an effort to effectively distribute this video in such a way that it will seen by those who would most benefit from the information, it has been made available, free of charge to all of Middlesex through local the cable access channel found in each town.

We are pleased to report that eight communities have already agreed to air our video “All Jammed Up” via their local cable stations. They are: Arlington Cable Access (ACTV), Burlington Cable Access Television, Cambridge Community Television, Lowell Telecommunications Corp., Malden Access Television, Natick Pegasus Education, the Wayland Channel, and Wilmington Community TV, Inc.

Now, we are asking for your help. We hope to continue this outreach and send this video to all stations within Middlesex. We are asking that concerned school staff, parents and community health and safety professionals join with us to personally outreach to all Middlesex cable television stations to ask that this video be broadcast.