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Vital Signs: Native American Teenagers Promote Sports to Tackle Substance Abuse

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Substance abuse has ravaged Native American communities for generations. For our series Vital Signs, we traveled to Lake County to meet two Pomo Indian teenagers who want to change that through sports. They won a national essay competition about how addiction impacts their families. We caught up with them at the tail end of their football practice at Clear Lake High in Lakeport.

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