The most significant highlight of the last Talbot County Council meeting on Tuesday evening was a serious and a discouraging report on local teen use of alcohol & drug use. Presented by Beth Williams and Sharon Huseman, Executive Director of Talbot Partnership, for the Blue Ribbon Commission Oversight Committee on teen risk. In short, alcohol and drugs are still very serious problems for high school students in Talbot County.
While there was some good news on cigarette use, most of the data indicates that Talbot County teens are still showing relatively high levels of drug and alcohol use as compared to other Maryland Counties.
This video has been heavily edited to seven minutes. For those interested in seeing the entire presentation and the rest of the Council meeting, please visit TV-98 here.
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