LISBON — The Lisbon Police Department, in conjunction with the Lisbon School Department and Healthy Androscoggin, participated in a national program titled Sticker Shock on June 3.

School resource officer Renee Bernard, adviser Michelle Huston and students Lindsey Huston and Peighton Gosselin visited various stores throughout Lisbon to place stickers and signs on alcoholic beverages to educate adults about the consequences of providing alcohol to youths. 

The 2015 Maine Integrated Youth Health Survey indicates that 41 percent of youths who drank alcohol in the past 30 days got their alcohol “from someone else.” Often parents, older siblings, friends and others are unaware that they can get into trouble, along with the youth, if they provide alcohol to a minor.

By using youths themselves to spread the word and educate the community, preventing the harmful effects of underage drinking is possible.

FMI: 207-795-5990, www.healthyandroscoggin.org.