FATE travels to NW Oklahoma

October 31st, 2011

FATE Executive Director Jim Priest presented “What’s YOUR fate?” to over 250 high school students at the 16th Annual High School Drug Seminar sponsored by the Northwest Behavioral Health Center in Fort Supply, just north of Woodward, Oklahoma. As the [...]

“You are not alone” provides help to families

October 29th, 2011

You Are Not Alone is an online resource made available through our partners at www.drugfree.org. It’s dedicated to helping the families of the 11 million American teens and young adults who need treatment for drug or alcohol abuse — that’s 1 [...]

FATE speaks to 1000+ students at Whittier Middle School

October 27th, 2011

FATE’s Reggie Whitten, Jim Priest and Jeff Hargrave traveled to Norman, Oklahoma to speak to over 1000 students at Whittier Middle School. A revved up student body participated in the game show “What’s your DIQ?” (Drug IQ) and participants were [...]

KREF SportsTalk 1400 interview

October 24th, 2011

Toby Rowland interviewed FATE Executive Director Jim Priest on SportsTalk 1400 radio this morning, talking about Oklahoma Life of An Athlete. OKLOA is a free program offered by FATE to high schools and colleges in Oklahoma to help athletes focus [...]

Oklahoma Life of An Athlete Blog Available

October 21st, 2011

FATE is the sponsor of a free program to high schools and colleges called Oklahoma Life of An Athlete and provides an on line training course at www.okloa.org. The OKLOA program and course deal with the impact of alcohol and [...]

Every 14 minutes someone dies of drug overdose in US: Rx drugs chief contributor

October 16th, 2011

Oklahoma has a serious problem with prescription drug abuse. According to the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, more Oklahomans died from Rx drugs than street drugs last year. Here’s a story that appeared in this morning’s CBS Sunday Morning TV show: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/16/sunday/main20121033.shtml?tag=contentBody;cbsCarousel

FATE visits Edgemere Elementary

October 12th, 2011

Reggie Whitten and Jim Priest visited Edgemere Elementary School in Oklahoma City on October 11 and spoke with students in the 4th, 5th and 6th grades. Since the average age at which students take their first drink of alcohol is [...]

Who’s statistics on PSE are correct?

October 10th, 2011

Here’s an article about the battle of stats between the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and drug manufacturers about the sale of pseudoephedrine (PSE) which is a precursor of methamphetamines. Oklahoma has a significant meth problem, especially in the NE part [...]

Two new resources for parents available on line

October 7th, 2011

Our friends at the partnership at drugfree.org have two new resources available for parents: The first resource is the parent hot line, where parents who need advice can call 24/7 with questions. The other is a drug guide that gets parents [...]

Legislature’s interim study on meth and PSE prescription continues

October 5th, 2011

An Oklahoma state legislative committee continues to hear testimony from advocates of making PSE (pseudoephedrine) a prescription drug in “dry tab” form. For the complete story click below and also check out stepmethlabs.com http://stopmethlabs.com/ http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Debate-on-meth-restrictions-continues-at-capitol/5NtZYoLP106UNBIeFRkf0A.cspx