Drugs and Your Friends - Friends and Peer Pressure - James's Friends Use Alcohol, Laura's Friend Uses Tobacco And Marijuana, Sara's Friend Uses Psychedelics

Drugs and Your Friends - For Further Reading

Alexander, Clifton, MD, and Alexander, Sandy. Kick the Drug Habit. Tucson: Antler Publishing Corp., 1989. Ball, Jacqueline. Everything You Need to Know about Drug Abuse. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 1992. Browne, David. Crack and Cocaine. New York: Gloucester Press, 1987. Dolmetsche, Paul, and Mauricette, Gail. Teens Talk about Drugs and Alcoholism. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 19…

Drugs and Your Friends - Glossary Explaining New Words

Physical or mental need for a habit-forming substance.

Drugs and Your Friends - Help List - Call Or Write - Hot Lines, Telephone Book

1-800-COCAINE Answers any questions about cocaine.

Drugs and Your Friends - How to Say No

I n Chapter 2, you read about several teenagers and the choices they made. They didn't all make good choices all the time. There were other good choices they could have made to resist drug use. We hope their stories give you something to think about when you face peer pressure. A good example of dealing with peer pressure is “Just Say No,” and meaning it. Unfortunately, this d…

Drugs and Your Friends - Introduction

Y ou have to make many choices in life. Some are more difficult than others. Some are better than others. Choosing to stay home on Saturday night to study for an exam on Monday is tough, but a good choice. Choosing to hang out in a parking lot, drinking beer with your friends on Friday night after the football game is not a good choice. Drinking alcohol is illegal for anyone under the age of 21. I…

Drugs and Your Friends - What Drugs Do - Alcohol, Nicotine, Marijuana, Psychedelics, Cocaine And Crack, Heroin

Y ou've seen drugs used on TV and in movies.