Louie Miceli had a typical suburban childhood growing up in Medinah and later playing football while a student at Driscoll Catholic High School in Addison, says his mom, Felicia Miceli.
Now the Bartlett resident hopes that a new K-12 drug education bill working its way through the state legislature -- and named Louie's Law in memory of her son -- will arm students and families with the knowledge and resources that neither she nor her son had. "I got a phone call from one of Louie's friends' moms. They told me Louie was doing heroin," she said."I didn't believe it. When I asked him about it, he didn't deny it. He welled up with tears, fell to the floor and said, 'Yes, Mom, it's true.'""I didn't know what I needed to know about the disease," she said, adding that she also was upset that Louie wasn't taught about it.
"We need an honest dialogue between adults and kids about drug use and what it is and how to prevent it or how to get help if they're experiencing it," she said.
Agreed, drug education not sex education.