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Submissions Open For Kids Kick Opioids Contest

Friday, May 3 is the deadline for the West Virginia Attorney General’s 8th Annual Kids Kick Opioids contest.

The deadline for a statewide student art competition focused on opioid awareness is quickly approaching. Friday, May 3 is the deadline for the West Virginia Attorney General’s 8th Annual Kids Kick Opioids contest.

The contest provides an opportunity for students to learn about the dangers and consequences of prescription painkiller abuse, as well as an outlet to share personal experiences of how opioid dependence has impacted their lives and that of their loved ones.

Last year’s contest received more than 2,000 entries from students at 66 middle and elementary schools across West Virginia.

Students can work individually or in groups. Submissions may include drawings, poems, letters or anything that would promote awareness.

The winning entry will appear as a statewide newspaper public service announcement. Regional winners will be displayed in the State Capitol.

Student Art Helps Raise Awareness Around Opioids

The contest received more than 2,000 entries from students at 66 middle and elementary schools across West Virginia. The submissions included a mix of drawings, poems and other designs aimed at promoting awareness.

Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced Kiley Ford from Rivesville Elementary & Middle School in Marion County as the winner of this year’s Kids Kick Opioids contest.

The contest received more than 2,000 entries from students at 66 middle and elementary schools across West Virginia. The submissions included a mix of drawings, poems and other designs aimed at promoting awareness.

Ford’s winning design features a drawing of an animal-like being with bloodshot eyes, its mouth open and tongue sticking out. A pill is visible inside the mouth, and the words “The truth about opioids isn’t hard to swallow” are written on the being’s tongue.

The design will soon appear in newspapers across West Virginia as the attorney general’s next public service announcement.

The West Virginia Board of Pharmacy, West Virginia Association of School Nurses and the Capitol Police helped judge the contest.

Judges also recognized Evee Matheny from Lenore PK-8 School in Mingo County and Hailey Rogers also from Rivesville Elementary & Middle School as the statewide runners-up. Their designs will appear with Ford’s on the attorney general’s website.

Judges recognized winning entries from 65 students overall. Those designs will be displayed in the State Capitol in the fall.

The winning submission to the Kids Kick Opioids competition.

Mercer County Student Wins 'Kids Kick Opioids' Art Contest

The fourth annual West Virginia art and writing contest aimed at raising awareness of prescription painkiller abuse has ended, with a student from the southern region named as the winner.

Fourth grader Taylor Wright of Lashmeet/Matoaka Elementary School in Mercer County was selected as the statewide winner in the ‘Kids Kick Opioids’ contest, according to a press release from Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. The southern coalfields, including Mercer County, have been impacted especially hard by the epidemic.

The winning design is a drawing, showing people trapped inside a pill bottle with the message, “Don’t bottle up your family over your addiction.” It is a reminder that opioid abuse goes far beyond a person using drugs, the statement said.

The entry was chosen from among more than 3,500 students statewide and will appear in newspapers across West Virginia as part of Morrisey’s public service announcement.

Runners up were Rivesville Middle School eighth grader Dakota Niebergau in Marion County and St. Paul Catholic School eighth grader Mia Pietranon in Weirton.

Regional winners will have their work displayed at the state Capitol in Charleston this fall.

 

'Kids Kick Opioids' Contest To End Friday

A contest deadline is approaching for West Virginia schoolchildren to raise awareness of prescription painkiller abuse.

The Kids Kick Opioids contest is open to elementary and middle school students. It can include poems, drawings, letters or anything that promotes awareness of painkiller abuse.  

Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says the deadline to enter is Friday.

Students can work individually or in groups. The winning entry will be used in Morrisey’s next statewide newspaper public service advertisement. Regional winners will be displayed in the state Capitol. 

Entries can be mailed to the Attorney General’s Office or sent by email.

West Virginia has by far the nation’s highest death rate from drug overdoses.

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