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Students in Massachusetts will no longer be participating in a 25-year-old drug prevention program, due to recent significant state budget cuts. The New Beginnings Program, which was established in 1985, works to keep kids from making destructive decisions and from becoming addicted to drugs and/or alcohol. Program director and founder, Bill Phillips, commented on the struggle to maintain funding for the program: "We haven't lost the energy to try to keep fighting."

The programs usually visit about 300 schools per year and host an annual conference for health workers, teachers, and others who are concerned with healthy childhood development. The program also hosts approximately 40 meetings per year with groups around the state. Approximately 250,000 students have participated in the New Beginnings program over the last two decades.

(Source: www.wickedlocal.com)

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