NEW ANTI-DRUG GROUP TO MEET

The newly formed Northern Kentucky chapter of Residents Attacking
Drugs will hold a special drug assembly for Campbell County teachers,
students in grades 8 through 12 and their parents from 7 to 9 p.m.
Thursday at the Campbell County High School auditorium.

The assembly will include youth speakers from Kids Helping Kids, a
drug dependency treatment program in Clermont County, Ohio; Dr. Mike
Kalfas, medical director of the St. Luke Alcohol and Drug Treatment
Center in Falmouth; Lt. Dave Fickenscher of the Campbell County
Police; and Laura Kruthoffer of the St. Luke West Intensive Outpatient
Chemical Dependency program.

Plans are under way for a similar meeting for students, parents and
teachers at Bishop Brossart High.

The local RAD chapter was formed in response to the heroin overdose
deaths in recent months of three young men in rural Campbell and
Kenton counties.