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Event Location(s): Dallas, Texas | Description: INT DALLAS, TEXAS MS: 17-year old Cyrus Stowe at his computer. MS: Stowe edits his short film “Out Of Reach” on the computer. MS: In interview Stowe says “My name is Cyrus Stowe, I'm 17, and I made this film to show parents what kids are really doing with prescription drugs,” CLIPS: Clips from “Out Of Reach” including Stowe saying “My name is Cyrus Stowe, I'm 17, and I made this film to show parents what kids are really doing with prescription drugs,” and Stowe with another teenager who in interview says “I can go into my parent's bathroom, and there are just rows and rows of pill bottles, you know of pain meds...and that's where people get it from.” INT DALLAS MS: Stowe delivers speech in a classroom. MS: Rear shot of seated students listening to Stowe. INT MS: Point of view shot of walking towards a bathroom door and panning shot of the door. MS: Blurry shot of pill bottles in a medicine cabinet becomes in-focus. MS: In interview Stowe says “It doesn't look harmful, there's no needle. And they have no idea what they're taking in a lot of cases.” MS: Panning shot of labels on prescription bottles. MS: Empty school classroom. MS: Pills in a prescription pill bottle held by a person (faces unseen). CLIP: Clip from “Out Of Reach” with Stowe in interview saying “My friends, they have these parties, basically they all bring all their parents' old drugs, just prescription drugs and put them all in a bowl, and they just take 'em.” INT MS: Loose prescription pills. INT DALLAS MS: In interview (part VO) Stowe says “What we found out was, we'd go into the restroom, and students right before a test would go into a stall, pop an Adderall, sometimes snort it and trade more hard drugs like OxyContin, Hydrocodone, and just take them as if it was vitamin C.” INT MS: Blurry point of view shot of walking into a school restroom towards a stall. MS: Hand (faces unseen) hold prescription pill bottles filled with pills. CU: The pill bottles. INT IN A MIDDLE SCHOOL 2 MS: Rear shot of students seated at their desks. MS: Student (faces unseen) taps her foot at her desk. GFX: Medicine cabinet with prescription pill bottles including one pain pill bottle and GFX supers “#1 most abused drugs among 12 & 13 year olds, Source: (2012) National Survey On Drug Use & Health” INT MS: Blurry shot of legs (faces unseen) of middle school students walking in a classroom. MS: Loose prescription pills and a pill bottle. MS: In interview Partnership for Drug-Free Kids’ Steve Pasierb says "We see parents modeling the wrong behavior. They share pain medicines with their kids. They share antibiotics among the family. But when they're misused in any way, not only can they be dangerous, they can actually be deadly.” MS: Slow-motion blurry shots of pills being poured from pill bottles. STILL: Mother Sherrie Rubin and her teenage son Aaron. INT MS: In interview in her kitchen, Sherrie cries and says “We get the phone call and they said you need to get to the hospital, Aaron's not breathing.” STILLS: Inserts of Aaron as a high school football player, of Aaron and another man with their arms around each other’s necks, and of Aaron with Sherrie. STILL: Aaron and Sherrie and superimposed prescription pills in a pill bottle. INT MS: In interview Sherrie says she and her husband were “extremely in the dark” about Aaron’s habit, adding “And we were involved parents in their religious training, in Boy Scouts, in the PTA, in their classroom, and we still had no idea.” STILL: Aaron and his parents. STILL: Aaron. INT MS: Superimposed prescription pills being poured from a pill bottle. STILL: Aaron attached to tubes in a hospital bed (has permanent brain damage from an accidental overdose). INT 2 MS: Aaron, in a wheelchair, coughs and takes pills given to him by Sherrie. 2 MS: Aaron takes a pill as Sherrie (faces unseen) holds a cup of water. 3 MS: Sherrie and her husband lift Aaron onto his bed. 2 MS: Sherrie watches Aaron as his hospital bed rises to lift his head as a football is seen on a nearby table. MS: In interview Sherrie cries and says “The challenges that he and our family have to live with every day are insurmountable, agrees that “absolutely” kids are at a war with prescription drugs, and adds “We need to educate ourselves, so when your child is approached to take this, 'it's just like marijuana but better,' they will have the proper knowledge to not take it.” MS: In speech in a school auditorium as students sit on the floor, Sherrie, standing next to Aaron in his wheelchair, says “Every 14 minutes, someone in our country dies from a prescription drug overdose.” MS: Long shot of Sherrie and Aaron on the gym floor with students sitting on the floor and in the bleachers. MS: Students in the bleachers. STILL: Aaron in his wheelchair posing with teenagers. INT MS: In interview Sherrie says (part VO) “If one kid in the room listens and makes a good choice, they've saved their family a tragic heartache.” 2 MS: Sherrie helps Aaron hold and lift a therapeutic medicine ball as Aaron lies in his bed. (NBC Special Anchor Maria Shriver does no sign-off).