Red Ribbon Week encourages kids to make good choices - 25 News KXXV and KRHD

COPPERAS COVE, Texas — Red Ribbon Week has called galore constabulary officers crossed the federation to schools successful bid to amusement students the risks of drugs and alcohol.

Dozens of young teens astatine Copperas Cove Junior High experienced what the consequences are if you’re driving impaired oregon texting and driving.

Virtual world goggles are conscionable 1 of the tools giving an example.

Carl Smith with Fort Hood Drug Enforcement said reaching the kids present volition hopefully deter them from doing these things successful the future.

The purpose is to marque definite kids recognize the carnal dangers of driving drunk with drunken goggles and the ineligible ramifications that travel with impaired driving.

Students drove scooters on with a driving simulator with goggles connected - showing students what it’s similar if you’re driving drunk oregon precocious connected a controlled substance.

"With vapes that a batch of them volition possibly effort oregon are trying medicine meds," said Smith. "We privation to marque definite they recognize from a ineligible standpoint that they tin inactive get successful occupation if they bring it connected campus.”

Smith said the inferior precocious property radical is astatine the property they volition beryllium trying to experimentation with antithetic things, and they privation to promote them to marque the close choice.