Consequences
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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 Die from Drugs
There is a drug-induced death in the US every 13 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. -
How Does Drug Use Affect Your High School Grades?
Did you know that your brain develops until the age of 25? Anything that you do to disrupt this process—including substance—will affect how your brain develops. -
How Does Drug Use Affect Your College Grades?
Drug use may prevent you from getting scholarships or from getting into the school that you wanted because of poor grades. -
Getting High and Driving
More and more studies of drivers killed in motor vehicle accidents have found an increasing number of these drivers testing positive for at least one drug.
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