Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Substance Abuse
The program attacks common misconceptions, establishes facts, and shows the serious consequences of using "club" drugs, prescription drugs, cocaine, and heroin .
High school narrators lead younger students to a better understanding of these lethal drugs. Medical and law enforcement experts add their support and authority to the narrative.
Interviews with drug-free high school students amplify the social norms message of the program for middle schoolers: The real truth about drugs is that the vast majority of teens don’t use them, ever.
In this way peer pressure is seen and used as a positive force, an encouragement for young viewers to join with most other kids who choose to be drug free, now.