Drug-Free South to Host Special Musical Performance During Red Ribbon Week

To protect people from the disastrous effects of abusing drugs, the Drug-Free South team is planning a special musical show to enlighten youth and others on how to live clean and healthy lives.

“Red Ribbon Week is the oldest and largest drug prevention campaign in the country,” according to imdrugfree.com. Red Ribbon Week occurs during the last week of October each year and is a time to educate young people and help prevent drug abuse. The Red Ribbon Campaign was started when drug traffickers in Mexico City murdered DEA agent Kiki Camarena in 1985. This began the continuing tradition of displaying Red Ribbons as a symbol of intolerance towards the use of drugs. The mission of the Red Ribbon Campaign is to present a unified and visible commitment towards the creation of a Drug-Free America, according to redribbon.org.

Drug-Free South has participated in the campaign since 2009 by distributing copies of The Truth About Drugs booklets, which help young people understand what drugs are and how they affect the user, visiting school classrooms to deliver a seminar to students utilizing the documentary The Truth About Drugs: Real People, Real Stories, and getting the Drug-Free World public service announcements played on television.

This year Drug-Free South volunteers are planning several events to commemorate Red Ribbon Week. One of these is a special musical show to encourage people how to live clean and healthy lives.

Drug-Free South has provided seminars to students in over thirty counties in Tennessee. It is the Tennessee chapter of the Foundation for a Drug-Free World, an international non-profit organization, and its materials demonstrate the dangers of drugs through factual information and interviews with former addicts giving personal perspectives on each of the substances covered.  For more information, visit drugfreesouth.org.