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#98: I Choose My Future: A Retired DEA Agent's Powerful Message
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Rocky Herron, a retired DEA special agent with 31 years of experience, shares his journey delivering an impactful drug prevention program that has reached over 270,000 students across 16 countries. His mission emerged from discovering his own children weren't receiving drug prevention education in school.
• Free educational videos and resources are available at RockyHerron.com for schools and families looking to start these important conversations
Warning: this episode includes adult topics and mentions suicide. Listener discretion is advised.
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Chapters
1. Introduction to Rocky Heron (00:00:00)
2. Origins of Rocky's Prevention Program (00:04:14)
3. Reaching the 80% of Persuadable Kids (00:10:56)
4. Why Prevention Education Disappeared (00:18:49)
5. Teaching Internationally and Cultural Universals (00:28:29)
6. The Narcan Double-Edged Sword (00:39:07)
7. Trauma Vomit: Children Share Their Pain (00:51:29)
8. Teaching in Prisons and Tribal Communities (01:03:09)
9. Free Educational Resources (01:17:33)
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