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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
In the nearly three years since her son Len Bias died of a cocaine overdose, Lonise Bias has travelled the country speaking to groups about drug abuse. Last Thursday she spread the message to Rappahannock high school students at the academic awards assembly in the afternoon and to athletes and their parents at the athletic banquet that-night.
“The root of the problem is each and every one of you,” Mrs. Bias told the high schoolers. “The ice cream man wouldn’t be standing on the corner selling these new kinds of ice cream if no one was buying. ”
The two main points she wanted the students to get were that they must love themselves, and out of that self-love they must develop the strength to resist the peer pressure of false friends. “How easily our young people betray their families for someone they know nothing about,” she said.
“Young people frequently excuse their wrong behavior by saying, ‘It won’t hurt anyone but me.’ Be
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