CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx \u2014 Numerous school districts in the Coastal Bend are celebrating ‘Red Ribbon Week’ and educating students about the dangers of substance abuse. <\/p>\n
This week, students are participating in a parade with local and state law enforcement agencies, and this year’s theme is “Life is a Puzzle, Solve it Drug Free.”<\/p>\n
Different school campuses will allow students to dress up in various themes throughout the week and to participate in special activities.<\/p>\n
Red Ribbon Week first started under the Reagan administration in 1985 and was formalized in 1988.<\/p>\n
“Today, the eight-day celebration is an annual catalyst to show intolerance for drugs in our schools, workplaces, and communities,” stated officials from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.<\/p>\n
Every year, more than 80 million young people and adults make a commitment to a healthy, drug-free lifestyle by wearing or displaying a red ribbon from Oct. 23 through Oct. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx \u2014 Numerous school districts in the Coastal Bend are celebrating ‘Red Ribbon Week’ and educating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-24753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}