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Carrie Brummel of Batavia, who has been clean of her heroin addiction for ten years, tells her story Tuesday at a Kane County Sheriff's drug and alcohol prevention program.

Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer

Kane County Sheriff Pat Perez opens the drug and alcohol prevention program presentation, "Parents: You Matter," Tuesday at the Sheriff's office in St. Charles.

Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer

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Carrie Brummel of Batavia, who has been clean of her heroin addiction for ten years, answers questions Tuesday after telling her story at the Kane County Sheriff's drug and alcohol prevention program presentation, "Parents: You Matter," at the Sheriff's office in St. Charles.

Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer

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To all you parents of middle-schoolers who didn't think you needed to attend the Kane County sheriff's drug-awareness presentation Tuesday night, the parents who did have a message for you: Get your heads out of the sand. Carrie Brummel of Batavia, a 2003 graduate of Kane County's drug court program, dispelled stereotypes of how kids become addicts. “It was a group of overprivileged, immature kids. It was something to do,” Brummel said.

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