Monthly Archives: September 2018

Why were you inspired you to create/begin your project? I was inspired to create my heroin awareness project, H.A.P.P.Y. (Heroin Addiction Prevents People’s Years) Week, in 2013 after my favorite actor, Cory Monteith died of a heroin overdose. I had always been a huge fan of his and of the show and I was devastated [...]

Upper Saddle River Teen Stephanie Reifman Wins National Award for Heroin Education Program The problem with student heroin education, Stephanie Reifman decided at age 13, was that no one was listening. Five ears later, Reifman's HAPPY (Heroin Addiction Prevents People's Years) Week heroin program for middle and high school students has earned her a $36,000 [...]