Youth drug use is down, but overdoses have risen. One town’s schools have a possible solution

“FORT KENT, Maine — Michael Robertson struggled in school almost from the very beginning. But it was in seventh grade, when he started smoking cigarettes and drinking, that school seemed to become nearly unbearable to him. “There was always an excuse for why he couldn’t go to school,” said his mother, Danielle Forino. “Every morning, he would say he was...

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