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Attorney General for Virginia, Mark Herring has partnered with the Preventum Initiative to implement FEND, an opioid education and prevention campaign for teenagers; FEND will be an addition to the AG’s existing approach to the opioid epidemic. “The opioid epidemic...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - December 8, 2018 TWIZTID AND FEND TEAM UP Black Mountain, North Carolina, December 8, 2018—FEND, Preventum Initiative’s seminal prevention campaign, gained a lot of momentum when it rolled out with the Vans Warped Tour this summer. More than...

MEDIA RELEASE November 13, 2018 Kevin Lyman wins Billboard’s Humanitarian Award for work with FEND Billboard has announced Kevin Lyman as the winner of this year’s Humanitarian Award for his work promoting FEND (Full Energy, No Drugs), a youth-led community based...

Vans Warped Tour bands back FEND, an app educating young adults about opioid dangers Can a mobile app help to address the opioid crisis in the U.S.? That’s the goal behind FEND, an app that’s taking advantage of technology solutions like machine learning and...

The following are interviews conducted by SunCity Paradise’s Founder and CEO, Sean Ritchie, at the FEND Movement launch party in New York City at the Cutting Room. — — — Sean Ritchie: How did your and Warped Tour’s involvement come to be with FEND? Kevin Lyman: It was...

It’s May 23 and on East 32nd Street, between Madison and Park Avenues in New York City, the Cutting Room is hosting an exclusive event manned by Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman. While Lyman is most famous for establishing Warped back in 1995 and successfully...

By James Brooks for Cities Speak President Trump outlined his plan to combat the opioid epidemic at an event in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Monday. In Manchester, overdoses through early March were up 23 percent from this time last year. (Getty Images) On Monday,...

By Steve Baltin June 21 marks the beginning of the end for the Vans Warped tour. That day, as they have for the last 24 years, tens of thousands of young fans will gather, this time in Pomona, California, and watch a cavalcade of bands -- 3OH!3, the Used, Black Veil...