Musically, Gwinn teaches high students about the dangers of opioid use

Gwinn, me. (WLUC) – As the opioid crisis continues, strategies to combat strategies must be.

It can be difficult to talk to teenagers about opioid consumption. However, a group of the University of Michigan tried in a unique way to achieve students of the Gwinn High School.

Since 2022, the program of the University of Michigan School of Music has been going to High Schools across the State to present “painless”. On Tuesday they made a stopover in Gwinn.

“Every high school was in this situation in which they have a meeting in which some adults who do not relate to them try to tell them what is going on in their lives, and the goal is to have people who can understand and be those who can tell these stories,” said the student and actor Rhett Hemingway of the University of Michigan.

Jacob Ryan, graduate of the University of Michigan, wrote this story after hearing reports on addiction and recovery. Actor Aliyah Douglas says she hopes that the musical will help save life.

“I remember that I would have been really impressive in the high school because I didn’t do anything personally, but they see it everywhere, and if it is not opioids, it is something else that is dangerous,” said Douglas. “For example, put things with fentanyl, and that’s dangerous.”

The musical is part of a collaboration with Open, an organization for drug prevention.

Open offers a variety of programs, safe disposal initiatives to educational courses and programming about drug prevention, treatment and recovery.

The program manager Ellie English says that this musical is only a new approach to involve students.

“So to really try to humanize the disorders of the disorder of substance consumption and to let people know that it is an illness, no moral failure,” said English. “So it really only promotes the exchange of these stories and helps you to make well -founded decisions based on it.”

There will be another performance of the musical in the Forest Roberts Theater of Northern Michigan University on Wednesday.

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