A public service announcement created by students from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School was runner-up in a video contest sponsored by the state attorney general’s office, the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy, the Kentucky Pharmacists Association, the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators, and Operation UNITE. Their charge was to produce a 30-second video that illustrates the dangers of prescription drug abuse.
Students Tatyonna Williams, Riley Brown, Lori Martinez, Rest Aliu, and Haley Hall will share a $100 Amazon.com gift card donated by the pharmacists’ group. (Rest’s brother Praise Aliu, a sixth-grader at Beaumont Middle, also helped.) Their PSA features a teenager who stays up late, studying for an exam. Soon she starts to feel drowsy and decides to take some pills to help stay awake. Unfortunately, she becomes addicted and loses her friends, grades, and hope.