DEA’s Get Smart About Drugs is all about providing parents and caregivers with comprehensive and straightforward resources you can use to protect your family from drug abuse. The following DEA publications about drugs are available to educate and empower parents and caregivers.

Prescription for Disaster: How Teens Abuse Medicine

Increasing numbers of teens are using prescription and over-the-counter medications to get high. Many parents don’t know enough about this problem, and many teens don’t understand the dangers. Prescription for Disaster: How Teens Abuse Medicine, is a guide that helps parents understand and identify the medications teens are abusing. An invaluable resource for parents, Prescription for Disaster presents prescription drug basics, includes information about commonly abused prescription drugs, lists steps parents can take to keep their teens drug free, and more.

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Drugs of Abuse: A DEA Resource Guide

Drugs of Abuse delivers clear, scientific information about drugs in a factual, straightforward way. With the information in this guide, parents and caregivers can help their children make smart choices and avoid the consequences of drug abuse. This publication covers topics including the Controlled Substances Act and introduces drug classes including narcotics, stimulants, marijuana/cannabis, inhalants, steroids, and more. Drugs of Abuse also provides information about drugs of concern including “bath salts.”

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