FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A Forsyth County high school student is working to prevent drug overdoses by getting lifesaving resources into the community and helping families understand the dangers of fentanyl.
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Sai Vummadi, a senior at Alliance Academy for Innovation, founded Pulse of Prevention after seeing how fentanyl was affecting families around him. The youth-led project provides prevention resources, shares stories from families who have lost loved ones to overdoses and works to connect people with tools to help prevent overdoses.
Vummadi says the project has helped more than 708 people and distributed more than 200 Narcan kits in the community.
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Narcan is a medication that can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose.
The project’s prevention videos and interviews with families who have lost children to overdoses have received more than 456,000 views, according to Vummadi.
The effort has also reached beyond Georgia. Vummadi says coalitions in four states requested free drug disposal kits from Pulse of Prevention this month, and he has been packing and shipping the kits himself.
Vummadi also developed DoseSure, a free app designed to help people learn more about their medications. Users can scan a medicine label to check whether it is an opioid, identify a pill or learn about potential dangers of mixing medications with alcohol.
In 2025, Pulse of Prevention placed second at the national anti-drug coalition conference hosted by Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, according to Vummadi.
His message is simple: prevention starts with making information and lifesaving tools available to the people who need them.
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