Category Archives: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs

Tips for Teens: Tobacco (SAMHSA)

Tobacco—cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and snuff—damages your health. Smoking, which is the most common cause of lung cancer, is also a leading cause of cancer of the mouth, throat, bladder, pancreas, ...

Drug Use (ABCT Fact Sheet)

When we speak of drug use, we mean those substances that affect our brain and, thus, our behavior. Different drugs have different types of effects. The major classes of psychoactive drugs are depressa ...

Alcohol Abuse (ABCT Fact Sheet)

Drinking beverages containing alcohol has been prevalent in many societies throughout history. Today, as in the past, most people engage in some drinking, and most do so without serious consequences. ...

Seeking Drug Abuse Treatment (NIDA)

The goal of drug abuse treatment is to stop drug use and allow people to lead active lives in the family, workplace, and community. One continual challenge, however, is keeping patients in treatment l ...

Prescription and OTC Medications (NIDA)

Some medications have psychoactive (mind-altering) properties and, because of that, are sometimes abused—that is, taken for reasons or in ways or amounts not intended by a doctor, or taken by someone ...

Marijuana Facts for Teens (NIDA)

Did you know that teen marijuana use has dropped dramatically since the late 1990s? So, if you were thinking everyone smokes marijuana, they don’t. Statistics show that about 7 percent, or roughly 1 i ...