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Michael R. DeLeon has been called many things: drug addict and gang member on the one hand, motivational speaker and filmmaker on the other. In his quest to reach young people about serious life issues, particularly drugs, DeLeon has picked up a couple of other...

A recovered heroin addict shared his story with Wallenpaupack Area High School students a few weeks ago. Michael DeLeon travels the country, telling how caffeine pills led to cocaine and eventually heroin; but his connection to a gang led to his mother’s murder and a gun being held to his young daughter’s head.

Fighting the battle against addiction takes a lot of arsenal. Just saying no doesn’t work. The scared straight approach is ineffective. Big-time celebrities speaking to students at assemblies or the relative of someone who has died from an overdose can be well...

Michael DeLeon is on a mission: a mission to educate our country’s youth to stay in the right direction when it comes to serious life issues, especially drugs. DeLeon is the founder and powerhouse behind Steered Straight Inc., a nonprofit organization formed in 2000...

Amish communities from three Indiana counties met Monday night to talk about a common problem: heroin. Amish elder Ben Stoltzfus says the problem of opioid addiction hasn't spared his otherwise isolated community. "It's just slowly creeping in here," he said. Heroin...

“Honestly that little sticker, it’s going to catch someone’s eye and that right there that can spark up a conversation,” said Stephen Ogle, with Steered Straight.

In a region many travel to escape the hustle and bustle of city life, an issue is underway that has caused great heartache and concern, while leaving some to wonder what can be done to address the area’s struggle with addiction. To learn more, at Wallenpaupack Area...

The Key Biscayne fire department is used to dispatching help from within its walls, but Chief Eric Lang never knew his station would become the proverbial living room in which families are sitting down to have the all-important discussion about drugs and alcohol. “A...

VIDEO INTERVIEW: Jill Horner speaks with Michael DeLeon, President and Founder from Steered Straight, about Drug and Alcohol Prevention.

The Middlesex-based Center for Network Therapy’s unique ambulatory detox program is successfully treating those struggling with substance abuse.

Topics will include treatment options, greater Princeton area drug trends and the lifesaving administration of Narcan, an opiate antidote which reverses the effects of an opiate overdose.

Michael DeLeon, founder of Steered Straight, will be the keynote speaker.

The video is titled, “Chasing the Dragon” and it is educating young people on the hazards of drug addiction before it’s too late.

A town hall meeting highlighted the crisis and challenges for those struggling to recover from substance abuse addiction on Thursday night in Dover.

Kevin Meara will speak at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire Thursday night about that state’s heroin problems.

Between 2004 and 2014, at least 53 people died of heroin or opiate overdoses in Williamstown, an unincorporated community located almost entirely in Monroe Township, Gloucester County.

Sam Motsay, by all accounts, was your typical boy next door: honor roll student, basketball player, band member, devoted big brother. But on May 11, 2014, Mother's Day, he made a decision -- a decision that that took his life and shattered the future for his parents...

“This truly is an epidemic and we in law enforcement cannot fix this by ourselves”