Warns that alcohol, though legal for adults, is an addictive and physically damaging drug, whose short-term effects begin with a single drink.

Warns of nicotine’s powerful addictive properties, the health risks of smoking and "spit" tobacco, and suggests sources of help in quitting tobacco.

Readers learn that LSD is a powerful, perception-warping hallucinogen whose long-term effects include true psychosis.

Exposes "meth" as a powerful, addictive stimulant that makes the user feel invincible, only to quickly leave him or her feeling helpless and depressed or even paranoid and violent.

Teaches that Ecstasy is an illegal, addictive and highly dangerous drug with potentially fatal effects.

Heroin is exposed as one of the worst drugs, addicting 80,000 people a year, and killing thousands.

Readers are warned that marijuana is a harmful, illegal drug with potentially life-destroying and even fatal effects.

Warns that crack is the most addictive form of cocaine, that users risk death from heart attacks, strokes and seizures with every use, and that they could end up in prison for possessing it.

Cautions that the use of medications designed to treat illness by those who aren't ill is both illegal and dangerous.