Substance Abuse Prevention and Bullying Prevention Highlight Reel [Video]

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you
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you
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when you have a headache you take this
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when you have an upset stomach
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you take that when you’re tired you take
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this they seem clean and safe they come
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by way of an authority that we generally
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trust kids are socialized into taking
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these drugs they see everybody taken
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from their parents their grandparents
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their baby sister when you take a drug
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something gets fixed it’s in every
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magazine it’s on television every single
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day they’re there they’re in all our
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houses how can they possibly hurt you
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everybody takes it and that is the
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fallacy with kids taking prescription
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drugs when used properly prescription
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drugs are perfectly legal and helpful
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way to treat illnesses and injuries
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that’s because the doctor orders a
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prescription drug based on a patient’s
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needs and medical history to treat a
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particular illness or condition but many
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prescription drugs are powerful
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substances that can have other effects
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on the body many of which can be
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dangerous
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there’s been an increase or explosion of
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new synthetic drugs the synthetic drugs
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are still very new we’re still learning
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about it literally every day the newer
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drugs that I see kids doing between 14
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and 18 will think we’re looking at some
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fake pot it’s synthetic marijuana k2
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spice base things of that nature what
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you see with the emerging drugs is is
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that they’re just throwing everything
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into the pot without any regulation
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whatsoever and we have no idea what they
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are how they affect the body how they
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affect the body long term or even even
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short term for that matter they’re so
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new when I first started smoking oh yeah
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yeah it was a great feeling I loved it
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it makes chemical changes in the brain
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it physically changes the brain my
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attention span was real bad but I was
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just basically out of it we found that
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long-term marijuana users did show IQ
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decline but the effect was concentrated
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among those who began using marijuana as
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adolescents which suggests that there’s
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something very specific about the
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adolescent brain and how marijuana is
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affecting it I am addicted to marijuana
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addiction is definitely a brain disease
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the first time is absolutely
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irresistible absolutely irresistible you
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know you take that first hit and you’re
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not in control whatsoever you might
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think you are you might think he got it
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under control but you’re not I overdosed
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seven times over the course of five
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years if I kept doing heroin I’d
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probably be dead right now I would have
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overdosed or I would have committed
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suicide you’re playing with life and
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death when you pick up the first one
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that’s all that’s all there is to say
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you are you’re playing with your life
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when you’re sticking a needle in your
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arm and they told me it was gonna be
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it’s exactly the same exact high as weed
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when I first smoked spice I was
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extremely high and extremely sick I
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started getting really real bad anxiety
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over it just a little shaking pain in
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the upper chest sick I worked to where I
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had to sit down and and Indesit the rest
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I just sat pretty much on a buddy’s
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couch and I didn’t want to move I didn’t
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want to talk to anybody I got really
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quiet sometimes you feel like you’re
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gonna die ballot measures in three
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western states ask voters if they want
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to legalize marijuana possession is now
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legal in Washington state recreational
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pot anything less than an ounce no
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longer illegal in Washington state as of
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midnight Washington state’s new law
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makes it legal for adults to possess up
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to one ounce of marijuana
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according to a recent survey less than
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half of people ages 12 to 17 think that
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pot is harmful such views have been
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influenced by a growing trend to
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legalize the use of marijuana
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wheat is okay yeah marijuana cigarettes
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are much more addictive but how safe is
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marijuana
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I have had suicidal thoughts kids need
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to understand that they’re basically
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playing Russian roulette with their
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brain very addictive very quickly
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addictive it is extremely dangerous I
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just can’t imagine that anyone would
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take these drugs if they just googled it
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and found out how many people had killed
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themselves you know there’s always
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something about that phone call that
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comes in the middle of the night that
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you know something’s wrong it’s like
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being in a coma model it’s like you’re
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turning into a vegetable you can’t do
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anything you are deteriorating it’s like
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you’re dying
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people would approach me in school and
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just hand me medication that they found
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in their parents medicine cabinet I had
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no idea what oxycontin was I had heard
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that it got you high so I asked him if I
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could buy a couple of them I was pulling
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up to multi-million dollar homes and
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buying oxy cotton I tried not to
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consider myself a drug addict when I was
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using I was just sliding I didn’t even
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like know that term I didn’t understand
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the word junkie and just knew I liked to
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get messed up I got to the point where I
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was doing six to eight eighty milligram
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pills of oxycontin a day it makes me a
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different person when I’m on drugs they
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really tore my life apart
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the use of snuff or chewing tobacco
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dates back to one BC today smokeless
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tobacco is growing in popularity due to
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the false belief that it is safer than
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cigarettes
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today’s smokeless spit tobacco contains
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over 2,000 chemicals oral de Vaca
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products contain 28 cancer-causing
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agents people who consume eight to ten
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dips or chews per day receive the same
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amount of nicotine as a heavy smoker who
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smokes 30 to 40 cigarettes a day
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75% of daily users of smokeless tobacco
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will get leukoplakia oral lesions that
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appear as white patches on the cheeks
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gums or tongue for smokeless tobacco
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users the risk of cancer to the cheek
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and gum is nearly 50 times greater than
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non-users
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I was a type of drug addict I could not
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go a day I could not go a second without
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my drugs they say you can’t be addicted
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to it but I’ve had some days and it was
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just like I needed marijuana for me to
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function it well I didn’t even think of
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drugs is addictive I just thought they
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were just something you did I didn’t
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know it was you my life was gonna depend
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on it I feel very strongly that
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addiction is a brain disease
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I think there’s ample evidence
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compelling evidence that there are
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profound changes that occur in the
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brains of people who are addicted to
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certain substances acetone a chemical
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used in paint thinner is dangerous if
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inhaled it can cause irritation to the
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skin eyes and respiratory system
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pesticides contain toxic chemicals such
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as cyanide that kill insects and other
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pests arsenic used to be a key
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ingredient in rat poison benzene is an
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additive in gasoline its use has been
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restricted because of its potential harm
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to humans carbon monoxide is a colorless
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odorless gas in automobile exhaust that
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can be harmful and even fatal have
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inhaled ammonia is the key ingredient in
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many cleaning fluids it is irritating to
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the skin and harmful to lungs all these
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substances can be found in a single
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commercial product consumed by millions
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of people tobacco
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he was 16 years old it was the first day
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of summer first time Scottie drinks
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let’s do it why not nobody thought about
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the consequences the truth is that
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drinking games are really about getting
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drunk and that drunk is about people
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getting hurt thinking of it as a game as
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a positive activity when there’s all of
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these negative ramifications or negative
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consequences there’s such peer pressure
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come on take another one take another
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one take another one he did six why
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can’t you do seven or I did ten you know
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can you do 12 your inhibitions are lower
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so you’re more likely to do things that
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you wouldn’t normally do Falls are
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common drownings for common unintended
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pregnancy is a big consequence sexual
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assault by that time it’s gone too far
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and either they wind up in emergency
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room or or worse
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I just didn’t it’s drink like that
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I miss him
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I woke up in a hospital bed strapped
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down on life-support with no hair it all
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got burnt off because women generally
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have smaller size and smaller blood
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volume the amount of alcohol is diluted
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less my mother drinking had caused me to
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have a birth defect I found out I had
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fetal calm when I was I was diagnosed at
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12 years old for about an hour and hour
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and a half and then finally the
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ambulance came out here to get way
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you’re juicy this first one you do it
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put your self restaurantes a drink to
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experiment and offer to relieve stress
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there’s always a reason to do it I’m
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stressed I like enhancers they say it
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goes from school like this oh well
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they’re doing it it seems okay but then
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they like okay morning I could justify
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using Norco enjoy myself and other
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things I drink every weekend always said
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I wouldn’t take it to the farthest
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morning but I don’t think I’ll get it
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tasted they looked at any temperature
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you went from occasional to a vast array
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of different ingredients that aren’t
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energy drinks including sugars such as
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fructose and sucrose different B
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vitamins taurine is an essential amino
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acid is actually the most abundant amino
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acid in animals and in the human body
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just like any other amino acid taurine
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is used to sort of help drive multiple
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different metabolic processes throughout
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the body amino acids and the vitamins
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are things that you would get in a
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well-balanced diet you don’t need any
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extra in an energy drink in order to be
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healthy many of the products contain
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herbs they’re touted for their health
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benefits but there’s not evidence to
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suggest there really are any people
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believe it but there’s not evidence for
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that all things herbal and all things
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natural are not necessarily good cocaine
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or the coca plant tobacco all these
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things the poppy that that from which
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heroin is made all these things are
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natural not good however
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just ten minutes before midnight Shawn
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had called us and was just happy new
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year and it was only 13 minutes later
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that this crash happened she came to the
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air she basically had nothing no skull
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from the forehead back her brains in her
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skull were actually on the trauma room
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floor as he was putting me into the car
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my parents had gotten there so the first
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thing that they saw was you know their
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sony getting pushed into a police car
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you know with the handcuffs behind his
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back I ran off the road into a park hit
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a concrete bent on the passenger side
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and tree myself so as a final result
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died
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this alcohol is harmless fact alcohol is
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a dangerous drug that causes 100,000
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deaths in the United States myth you can
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tell by looking at people if they’re
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drunk or not in fact some people act
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normal even when they’re drunk
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never get in the car with someone who’s
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been drinking alcohol even if the person
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seems fine now it’s okay to drink as
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long as you’re at home back when people
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drink alcohol the risk of accidents
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violence fires and other problems sky
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rocks and these problems can happen
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anywhere even at home there are lots of
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myths about alcohol who is that I see
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hang on Wendy whoa thanks uncle Weis
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what were you doing my friend Larry said
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hanging upside down was cool just
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because someone tells you something is
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cool doesn’t mean you should do it
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but Larry is my best friend he’s the
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coolest owl in school there are lots of
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ways to be cool but doing something
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dangerous isn’t one of them then how can
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I be cool
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from up here I see lots of ways
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take a look
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yep doing things that are good for you
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is cool but how do I know if something
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is good for me
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great question let’s find out the answer
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hi I’m here
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let’s just say we know each other from
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school you can’t see me but I’m right
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here hiding behind me I know you’re
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reading this are you there access to all
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everyone everyone thinks you’re a loser
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because Facebook or email text or phone
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what is left everyone thinks injury your
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mom is such a close
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this is a book that I made about a year
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after she died I invited all of her
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friends and we wrote things like what
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they would have said if they had a
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chance to say to her she was known for
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being smiling and kind and happy pretty
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much that’s how she was up until junior
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high school something started to change
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about her and I couldn’t put my finger
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on what it was
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Jeffery was just a normal kid with a big
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loving family and wonderful teachers the
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big plans for the future at the end of
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ninth grade we took a vacation as a
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family and just had a wonderful time but
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after we came back Jeff seemed almost
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depressed something happens to kids if
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they’re repeatedly tormented where they
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kind of begin to feel like they are less
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socially important they become more
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isolated they become depressed they
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become more alone they really begin to
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lose any hope that they are part of what
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other kids have which is social value
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each night something happened to one or
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two other kids
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they’re always told you have to do what
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they say when they say it how they want
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it two of the kids grabbed me pulled me
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in the other room there’s about 40 kids
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and they’re just waiting for me I was
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afraid they would just opened my mouth
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and dump it down my throat and I would
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have no choice and I said no the word
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hazing doesn’t do any justice to what
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has gone on now it’s more of sexual
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abuse harassment assault physical and
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mental people that you’re bullying you
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kind of forget that they’re people you
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only see them as a way to get a laugh
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bullying is for me was making somebody
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believe that they were lower than dirt
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if I said something about somebody I
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wanted to see them cry never once in
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that whole week of the name-calling did
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it crossed my mind that her feelings
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were being hurt
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kids get bullied every day that’s just
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the way it is sure schools have policies
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my school has a policy
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yeah that’s worked out real well I am
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NOT a bully and I’m not a victim or
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target or whatever they call kids who
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get bullied
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I know I should probably do something
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break it up but really it’s none of my
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business
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I was making fun of people because they
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weren’t as cool as me and they didn’t
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wear the same stuff as I did and I just
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went with a peer pressure and I just
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started being mean and saying these many
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things I remember thinking to myself wow
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I really reached a new low I don’t want
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to go into the classrooms and see people
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whispering about me and see people
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talking about me and hear people
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laughing sometimes people do lonely
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people without even realizing it bullies
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come in all sizes shapes and colors
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they could be guys or girls some bullies
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know they’re bullies but others don’t
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are you a bully and don’t even know it
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this program will ask you some questions
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to help you figure that out
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meet mark mark is pretty popular in
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school
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as a matter of fact some people think
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he’s cool some people think he’s funny
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too
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this is Chaz he doesn’t think mark is
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funny at all see you next fall
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okay why’d you do that just a Spencer
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stop it mark stopping my stop what you
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pick on me every day
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oh you fall down and you blame me I
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can’t help you tell your spaz oh is that
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I see I’m wise owl and from where I sit
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I can see everything going on below me
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let’s see what’s going on today oh my it
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seems that a big kid is picking on a
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smaller boy and look there are other
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kids standing around just watching the
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boy being bullied have you ever seen
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someone being bullied
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some kids are laughing did you ever
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laugh some kids seem scared do bullies
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scare you
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what should you do when you see someone
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else being bullied well that’s something
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I can help you figure out I always say
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don’t be a bully bystander

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