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Using Drugs Could Get You Kicked Off the Team
Drugs affect your breathing, heart rate, muscles, concentration, coordination, senses, pain level, and brain activity.
What is Addiction?
Learn everything you need to know about addiction through these videos produced by the Addiction Policy Forum.
Drugs and Dating Violence
Substance use can affect the way you treat your boyfriend or girlfriend.
At a Glance: Consequences of Using Drugs
Using drugs impacts your health, your social life, your family, your grades and your future.
You Lose Your Money To Drugs
Using drugs costs money. It takes money to buy drugs. The more you use drugs, the more you keep spending on them.
You Lose Your Job Because of Drugs
Do you know how drug use can affect job performance and cause you problems at work?
You Might Lose Your Student Loans or Scholarship From Drug Use
Students convicted of drug crimes while receiving federal student aid could lose their grants, loans, and/or work-study.
How Drugs Hurt Your Family
Drugs can hurt more than just you. They hurt your family, both financially and in your relationship.
You Could Die from Drugs
There is a drug-induced death in the US every 7.5 minutes. Drug overdose is now the leading cause of accidental death in the US—exceeding even motor vehicle accidents.
You Overdose on Drugs
Drug overdose happens. Sometimes people are lucky and they come out of it okay. Other times they come out of their overdose with physical or mental problems. Or they end up in a coma. Or they die.