{"id":2792,"date":"2025-12-31T12:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:31:53","slug":"december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/2025\/12\/december-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Petersen, School Resource Officer, Wake Forest University School of Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2793 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JP-Spotlight-Dec-2025-2-300x300.png\" alt=\"December 2025 Spotlight; Jake Petersen, School Resource Officer - Eastern Alamance High School\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JP-Spotlight-Dec-2025-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JP-Spotlight-Dec-2025-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JP-Spotlight-Dec-2025-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JP-Spotlight-Dec-2025-2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JP-Spotlight-Dec-2025-2-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JP-Spotlight-Dec-2025-2.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\"><em><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">&#8220;You see kids taking basically smoke breaks, leaving class to go to the bathroom or wander around campus just to get another hit and feed that addiction. 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