Say No to Drugs!

Why do teens use drugs?

• Peer Pressure
• Self-Medication & Escape
• Performance Improvement
• Experimentation
• To Feel Grown Up

Offer An ALTERNATIVE

• It's definitely difficult to say no to your best friend, especially if you want to fit in. If your best friend or a peer offers you drugs, try to change the subject or find something else for you guys to do. It's a much better alternative to doing drugs.

Self-Medication & Escape

• Even if the drugs are a prescription and are used for physical or mental health reasons, it's still important to be careful about how much you are taking. Overdoses can lead to serious probelms.

Performance Improvement

• Stimulate drugs shouldn't be the solution to improving your acidemic performance. Instead, making schdules to work at certain times can help.
• Even making time to relax and do the things you enjoy can help improve performances. The brain needs rest.

Experimentation

• Being curious about doing drugs isn't good at all, being curious is normal, but that doesn't mean you should act on that curiosity.

To feel grown up

• Teens want to feel grown up, and doing drugs makes them feel that way.
• Being an adult isn't all fun and games, especially if you do drugs. Instead of doing drugs to feel grown up, try acting more mature by taking up more responibilities.

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