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A Taste of Pittsburgh Magazine Online Source. In 2000 when heroin made headlines in Butler, PA there weren’t any prevention programs to help parents. Since 2003 a grassroots parent/child interactive program called Reality Tour has filled that gap. You may have never heard of it because the small non-profit CANDLE, Inc. (Community Action for Drug-free … Read more

PUBLISHED IN THE KITTANNING PAPER; www.kittanningpaper.com categories Regional News | KP NewsDesk October 22, 2015 Community Action Network for Drug-free Lifestyle Empowerment, Inc. (CANDLE, Inc.), the 501c3 Butler based non-profit that started the original, grassroots Reality Tour Drug Prevention Program back in 2003, has received a $340 donation from the USX Federal Credit Union in … Read more

By John Enrietto Eagle Sports Editor The Karns City High School football team made history Monday night (August 18) — and it had nothing to do with touchdowns or championships. The Gremlins became the first complete athletic team from Butler County to attend the Reality Tour Drug Prevention Program offered by non-profit organization CANDLE, Inc., … Read more

Posted on Oct 25, 2014 by RICK KAZMER Daily American City Editor rickk@dailyamerican.com A drug prevention program coming to Somerset County will show the step-by-step path of addiction — including the worst possible outcome — with a goal to keep families from realizing the nightmare. The Reality Tour’s focus is prevention, however, not scare tactics, … Read more

John Enrietto, sports editor of the Butler Eagle–Column from Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014 The statistics are staggering. Hearing them is like receiving a sudden slap in the face. It wakes you up. Forty-eight percent of all high school seniors will have at least tried an illicit drug by the time they graduate. Eleven percent of … Read more

By Jeremy Sellew Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, 12:16 a.m. After three long years, the Reality Tour has finally arrived in the Mon Valley. The first run of the program was held Monday at Belle Vernon Area High School. While the target audience will be parents and children ages 10 and older, the first go-round was … Read more

April 15, 2014 Prevention and Recovery Services and Safe Streets recently conducted an event at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. Reality Tour 2014 began on March 30 and ended March 31. The event focused on poor decisions concerning alcohol, drugs and tobacco and how they impact a family and community members. The event … Read more

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