What exactly is the deal with drugs? You've been lectured for years, but have your experiences matched what everyone's told you? Maybe, maybe not. The truth is drugs affect people in different ways -- and you just never know how a drug is going to affect YOU.

There is a lot of information on the use of drugs in popular culture, on the Internet, and in daily conversation with friends and peers. Some of the information is accurate, but much of it is not. Find out as much as you can about illegal, legal, prescription drugs, and even over-the-counter drugs, and their effects on your body and your brain. Also, there are legal consequences for growing, manufacturing and dealing drugs, or providing them to willing or unwilling users. In many states, possessing drugs for personal use, or with the intent to distribute is against the law. Drug tests pick up evidence of drug use and there can be severe consequences for using these drugs.