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Guest speaker tells high school students his recovery journey and urges them to seek help
Summary
A guest speaker shared a personal history of immigration, substance use and recovery with high school students, encouraged them to ask for help early, and offered his phone number and local resources.
A guest speaker, identified in the transcript as "Guest speaker," told high school students during a presentation that he recovered from substance use and urged them to seek help rather than handling problems alone.
The speaker described emigrating from Gdańsk, Poland, as a child, later moving to Germany and then to the United States, and recounted coping strategies he used — fighting, alcohol and drug use — that culminated in dropping out of high school. He said he joined the U.S. Coast Guard at 21 and later, after a suicide attempt discovered by his brother, began counseling at age 27. "If I did it, you…
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