The problem? Using drugs increases the risk of addiction and in some cases death due to an overdose.
Drugs eventually ruin health, destroy lives, or force users to drop out of school. Drugs actually isolate users from family and friends.
The same crowd that they thought was their friends can actually abandon them once they become addicted to drugs.
It is not uncommon for addicts to do anything to get drugs, and in most cases theft becomes a necessity to support drug abuse.
Users start stealing from family and friends and eventually engage in hard-core criminal activities such as armed robbery and burglary.
Drug users also engage in risk-taking behaviors such as having unsafe sex and putting their lives and other people's lives in danger while on the road.
Of course it's difficult to imagine that there are so many risk factors involved when peer pressure seems so tempting. People disregard the
risks and often think that they can get out of it as easily as they got into it, but this is most often not the case. Addiction is a disease
and there is no cure. However, there are treatment programs, and drug addicts can recover. Therapy programs are available
in our community to counteract the power of addiction.
Some people say they love getting high and drugs seem to be fun while they are using them, but usually they don't laugh much when
they are faced with diseases, incarceration, or an array of difficulties due to addiction.
Our program and images are not intended to be "scare tactics." They are reality checks to help teens become
fully informed before contemplating substance abuse.
DRUGS OF ABUSE
Graphic Images and live video testimonials.
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