Medford High Hosting Teenage Addiction Prevention Forum

Parents and guardians of Medford students are invited to a free community health forum in April on how to raise healthy children in today's society filled with drug and alcohol addictions.

Dr. Ruth Potee will speak Wednesday, April 12, from 6:30-8 p.m., at Caron Theatre at Medford High. She will host "What Every Parent and Teacher Must Know About Teen Brain Development and the Risk for Addiction."

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Potee will talk about the teen brain's development and how brain chemistry impacts risk-taking behaviors including alcohol and substance abuse. She will provide practical guidelines for raising teens in this climate.

Potee, a graduate of Wellesley College, Mount Holyoke College, and Yale University School of Medicine, serves as a family physician with the Valley Medical Group in Greenfield and is the co-Chair for Healthcare Solutions of the Opioid Task Force of Franklin County & North Quabbin. So she knows what she's talking about!

The presentation is being made possible by a grant from Team Medford, Medford Board of Health.

Anyone interested in attending can RSVP to Toni Vento at tvento@medford.k12.ma.us.