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November 4, 2015 | forsythherald.com | 75,000 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 18, No. 44
Drug summit educates community By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com
Real drugs are shown.
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CUMMING, Ga. — Marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy were displayed on a table surrounded by Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office deputies. However, this wasn’t a drug bust. It was the Forsyth County Drug Summit held Oct. 26 at the Lanier Tech Conference Center. The sheriff’s office brought displays of drugs and paraphernalia, answering parents’ questions and informing attendees. Commissioner Cindy Jones Mills said this was the fourth summit and it was initiated a few years ago after she realized the county needed to do something. “There are a lot of people suffering from addiction and a lot of kids and young adults
dying,” Mills said. “We weren’t doing much about it. I have friends up here that didn’t know where to turn. There wasn’t a lot going on. It seemed like a lot of kids were informed, but parents were not.” She said they tried to come together as a community and talk about the subject, so they started having the drug summits. However, as the summits grew, Mills said it wasn’t enough. Soon, the Drug Awareness Council was created. “We needed to be more and be a resource, somewhere that parents could go to in the community as a source of information,” Mills said. “Not a place where they’d be fearful of getting their kids in trouble. A place they could turn to that they could learn more about
See SUMMIT, Page 36
No Longer Bound unites community By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com CUMMING, Ga. — If you had told Edward Bailey when he was younger that he would one day be the executive director of No Longer Bound, he wouldn’t have believed you. Bailey struggled with addiction and nearly lost his family and his life. But when he found out about No Longer Bound, a faith-based, nonprofit organization on 15 acres in South Forsyth that treats about 80 men a year for drug and alcohol addiction, he turned his life around. Even with all the positive changes NLB has helped create, Bailey said that
isn’t enough and the problem of addiction needs to be solved. “No Longer Bound is really interested in doing something about it,” Bailey said. “We have a bold goal – to cure addiction in the world, one life at a time. It has spiraled out of control and has taken hold of our families, community and country. It used to be something I had to explain because of the stigma attached to it, but unfortunately we don’t have to explain it anymore. Addiction has really come home. It’s time we do something about it.” Part of doing something about it for Bailey is holding functions to raise
See UNITES, Page 37
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Edward Bailey, left, awards Sheriff Duane K. Piper, along with his family, with the inaugural Servant Leadership Award.