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Barnstable County Substance Use Program Manager Kim Slade provides information on teen vaping at the MRSD Parent University

Published on: November 5, 2019

The following article was published in the Cape Cod Chronicle on October 30, 2019 and is shared here with permission.

Monomoy Regional School District Parent University Clears The Air On Teen Vaping

By: Kat Szmit

HARWICH – A handful of Monomoy Regional School District parents got a crash course in vaping on Oct. 16, when Kim Slade, a substance abuse prevention manager and vaping expert with the Barnstable County Department of Human Services, offered information on teen vaping that sent any defense of vaporizer use up in smoke. “From 2017 to 2019 we’ve seen a 135 percent increase in students vaping,” Slade told parents … continue reading.