烟草、酒精、大麻、摇头丸、海洛因……全是毒品！
1． Just say．．．no?
What a joke. You're supposed to1 say “No” because drugs are bad, drugs kill. But maybe you have a few drinks once or take a puff2 at a party, and not only do you survive but you actually have fun. You know a girl at school who took cocaine3 last weekend, but she doesn't seem to be suffering or, dying. In fact, she's popular and on the honor roll4. You start thinking that slogans such as “0nly Losers Use” don't apply to5 your life. Those are for other teens, stupid or unlucky teens, so you ignore the messages —like every other kid in America.
The fact that teens are doing drugs doesn't mean campaign catch phrases6 like “Drugs Kill” are any less true. Your prom7 queen might be able to throw back8 six beers and two shots and, despite shaming herself by vomiting9, she's picture-perfect the next time you see her. But the numbers don't lie. Slogans or not, eight teens will die today and every day in alcohol-related car accidents. This year, almost 150,000 teens will end up10 in drug and alcohol treatment centers, and more than 125,000 young women will be hospitalized because of alcohol poisoning. Then there are the losses that can't be counted—the kids who don't die from drugs but end up addicted11, on the street or out of their mind.
Long-term studies of DARE, the anti-drug campaign taught in 75 percent of schools, found that anti-drug slogans had no lasting effect on controlling students' desire to experiment with drugs. From 1999 to 2000, the member of teens using ecstasy12 in the United States actually increased. Right now, 1 of out every 10 teens has tried the trendy club drug. Other drugs, especially ones that most teens don't consider to be “real” drugs, like alcohol and nicotine13, are far more popular than the illegal substances.
The winner is alcohol. It's something you drink, not something you smoke or find in a medicinal and scary-looking pill, so maybe that's why it's the drug of choice for almost half (43 percent) of all eighth graders and two-thirds of seniors. Tobacco, surprise surprise, is also a big player. More than four million American teens are puffing away on cigarettes, without knowing —or at least showing no concern—that nicotine is crazy-addictive and cigarette-related diseases are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. (400,000 deaths annually). Some smoking-related deaths were in patients who smoked only a few years.
With all these facts about drugs in a teen's face, why is it still hard to say no? Maybe because teens don't know exactly what they're saying no to. We're going to show you what all the drugs out there can do to your body. We're also going to tell you the lies teens hear when “friends” try to force them to join the fun activities. But first, meet two girls: One who decided to try E, just once on her birthday, and died; another who did every drug she could get her hands on, lived through it, and wants you to learn from her addiction.
2． Facts speak
Name: Brittney Chambers
Age: Dead at 16 (1985－2001)
Hometown: Superior, CO
Died her first time doing ecstasy
January 27 was a day that popular Brittney Chambers had been looking forward to forever because it was her 16th birthday. Brittney was the all-American girl: pretty, smart, a high achiever and close to her family. Weeks before her birthday party, Brittney's mom, a drug counselor14, had talked to her about which drugs were on the rise, including ecstasy. Brittney said she would never try E—she was too scared.
Her birthday party was big. About 30 teens came to Brittney's house; her mom stayed in the kitchen and her stepdad15 watched TV in his room. When a few of Brittney's friends gave her an unusual birthday gift, ecstasy, she turned it down. Brittney's friends didn't pressure her, but they dosed16 anyway.
An hour later, after watching her friends have “so much fun” on E, Brittney decided to take the pill. Her friends told her that E can cause loss of water in the body, so Brittney made sure to drink plenty of water. But something went wrong. While her friends were doing just fine, Brittney started throwing up17. Her friends made her drink more and more water, hoping to wash the drug out of her system. The plan didn't work. Brittney was vomiting so violently, that around 1 a.m, her mother called 911. A few hours later at the hospital, Brittney went into a coma18.
On February 2, only six days after her birthday, Brittney died. An examination showed that the cause of death was water poisoning: she had drunk so much water—up to19 three gallons— that it emptied her body of sodium20, caused her brain to swell21, and killed her. But her friends know the real blame belongs to the E.
Name: Dayna M．
Age: 16
Hometown: Ridge, NY
Treated for: Abuse22 of alcohol, ecstacy23, angel dust24 and cocain
Living at: Phoenix House Academy25 in Lake Ronkonkoma, NY
“I was a normal kid. I was smart, outgoing and on the honor roll. My home life was always good. I guess the trouble started because I hung out26 with older kids when I was in middle school. I drank my first beer at 11, and when I was 13, I tried pot27 because that's what my friends were doing. Then I took ecstasy, and fell in love with it. For about six months I was doing E every day. But slowly, it stopped affecting me. It didn't make me feel happy anymore, so I tried new stuff like angel dust and cocaine.
“I thought I was fine, but by the time I was 14, I couldn't go a single day without doing drugs. I'd go to school for half a day, or not at all, and leave home for days at a time. I remember coming home once and seeing how sad my mom was. I was getting sick, too. I was depressed, my jaw hurt from the E (users grind28 their teeth a lot), I couldn't sleep, my heart was always racing and I looked pale and washed out. All that29, yet every time I'd try to quit just I couldn't'.
“My parents had been trying to get me help for so long, but I had always ignored them. Finally, I told my mom I wanted to stop doing drugs. She was so happy that she cried. I realized then what my drug abuse had put my family through30, and I was so ashamed.
“I was on probation31 for missing school, and the judge on my case referred me to32 Phoenix House, a year-long inpatient33 program for teens 16 to 20. Every day I have school, chores and therapy34. I want to have a normal life, I want to wake up in the morning and think about my job or my family, but not about drugs. I know if I make it through this year, I can do anything.”
3． Real drugs
Whether it's an hour later or 10 years down the road, drugs can come back to haunt35 you in surprising and scary ways. “The setting for your whole life begins in your teens,”says spokesperson for the Office of National Drug Control Policy. “If you start abusing substances, there will be profound36 effects on the person you become, physically and mentally.”
Our drug chart shows you the most common drugs teens are exposed to37 and using today. We tell you what they really do—from seemingly harmless stuff like skin rashes38, paranoia39 and nausea40, to heavy side effects such as heart attack, coma, brain damage and death. Use this info...and then use your head. You'll find that the idea of using drugs doesn't sound so good after all.
(From Teen People)
1． 说“不”，就这么简单？
命运真会开玩笑。你应该对毒品说“不”，因为它们害人, 甚至致命。可是你也许在什么聚会上喝过几杯 或者吞云吐雾，不仅万事大吉还乐趣多多。你认识的某个女生上周末吸了可卡因，但看上去毫发无损，也没有要死掉的样子。事实上，她极有人缘，又总是榜上有名的好学生。于是你想“只有失败者才吸毒”之类的标语口号压根儿与你无关，那都是说别的愚蠢而不幸的孩子的，于是你对那些训诫不予理睬——就像其他的美国孩子一样。
青少年吸毒现象决不意味着“毒品杀人”这些反吸毒运动的警语言过其实。你们的毕业舞会皇后可能灌了六瓶啤酒加两杯白酒，虽然呕吐出了丑，下次碰面，她仍是光彩照人。然而数据不会说谎。不管你是否理会口号，包括今天在内，每天有8名青少年死于酗酒导致的车祸。今年差不多有15万年轻人被送进毒品和酒精治疗中心，有12万5千多名女青年因酒精中毒而入院。还有的损失无法统计——想想有多少孩子们虽然没有死于毒品却落得毒瘾成性、流落街头或神经失常。
DARE（反毒品运动，已在75%的学校进行）的长期研究表明，反毒品口号对克制学生尝试毒品的欲望没有持久的影响力。事实上，1999到2000年，美国使用摇头丸的年轻人增加了。如今每十个青少年就有一个吸食这种时髦的“俱乐部药”。其他的、尤其是不被青少年视为“真正”毒品的东西，诸如酒和尼古丁，比非法药品（毒品）更为流行。
最有欺骗性的是酒。它就是平常喝的东西，不是烟也不是看着怪吓人的药片，难怪它成了几乎一半（43%）八年级生（相当于初三学生）和三分之二高三学生的首选。令人吃惊的是，烟草也是个不容小视的角色。美国有400多万青少年吸烟，他们不是全然不知、至少也是毫不关心这样的事实——尼古丁极易使人上瘾，而与吸烟相关的疾病是美国的第三大致死病因（每年吸烟致死人数达40万）。一些因吸烟而丧命的患者仅有几年的烟龄。
这些事实就摆在面前，为什么孩子们对毒品说不还是这么难呢？也许孩子们根本不知道他们到底要对什么说不。我们将告诉你们那些毒品如何毒害你们的身体，我们也将拆穿所谓的“朋友们”在逼迫孩子们寻求刺激时所说的谎言。不过先让我们认识两位女孩子：一个在生日那天决定试一试摇头丸，仅一次就丧了命；另一个想方设法沾毒品，她活了下来，但希望大家能吸取她成瘾的教训。
2．让事实说话
姓名：布兰妮·钱伯斯
年龄：死 时 16 岁（1985-2001）
籍贯：苏玻瑞尔，科罗拉多州
第一次服用摇头丸即死亡
1月27日是人见人爱的布兰妮·钱伯斯一直盼望的日子，因为那是她的16岁生日。布兰妮是那种典型的美国姑娘：漂亮、聪明、成绩好、亲近家人。在生日聚会之前几个星期，做药品顾问的妈妈跟布兰妮谈到了哪些毒品正在升温风行，包括摇头丸。布兰妮表示她决不会去尝试——她太害怕了。
布兰妮盛大的生日聚会那天，大约有30个年轻人去了她家；她妈妈在厨房忙着，继父则在自个屋里看电视。几个朋友送给她一份非同寻常的礼物：摇头丸。她拒绝了，朋友们也没有强其所难，只是自顾自地享用。
一个钟头过后，看到朋友们服用摇头丸“其乐无穷”，布兰妮决定一试。听朋友们说摇头丸可能导致身体脱水，布兰妮为安全起见喝了足量的水。可还是出事了。朋友们没什么不良反应，布兰妮却开始呕吐。于是他们不停地给她喝水，希望能把毒品排出体外。这一招不灵，布兰妮吐得越来越厉害。凌晨1点，她妈妈拨了911，送到医院几个小时后，布兰妮陷入了昏迷。
2月2日，生日后的第6天，布兰妮死了。检验表明死因是水中毒——她喝了太多的水，足有3加仑，这使她体内的钠全部流失，造成脑部水肿而死。而她的朋友们知道，罪魁祸首就是摇头丸片。
姓名：黛娜·M
年龄：16
籍贯：里奇，纽约
病因：滥用酒精、大麻、摇头丸、天使粉及可卡因
现况：纽约Lake Ronkonkoma 凤凰戒毒研究院接受治疗
“我曾是个正常的孩子，聪明、外向，在学校经常受到嘉奖，家庭生活也不错。我想问题出在念初中时，我常和大点的孩子们混在一起。11岁时我喝了第一杯啤酒，13岁开始吸大麻，因为朋友们都这样。接着是摇头丸，而且沉溺其中。大约有六个月的时间我每天都服用摇头丸。但是渐渐地，它再不能满足我，再不能给我快感，于是我开始用新货，象天使粉、可卡因之类的。
“我觉得没什么大不了的，但是到了14岁，没有毒品我一天都撑不下去了。我只好上半天的学，甚至干脆逃学，有时还离家出走几天。记得有次回家，看到了妈妈伤透心的样子。我的身体也越来越差。我感到压抑，下颚疼痛（服摇头丸的人常常磨牙），无法入睡，心跳总是过速，而且面色苍白，萎靡不振。已到如此地步，可每次努力想戒掉，就是欲罢不能。
“父母一直都在极力帮我，可我却不理睬他们。最后，我告诉妈妈我想戒掉毒品，她为此高兴得哭了起来。我这才意识到自己滥用毒品让一家人都不好过，我简直无地自容。
“由于逃学我被学校察看，管这事儿的法官把我送到了凤凰戒毒所，16到20岁的青少年在那儿戒毒，为期一年。每天我都上学、做家务和接受治疗。我想过正常的生活，我想每天早上醒来想到的是我的职责、家人而不是毒品。我知道只要我成功地熬过这一年，我就能正常地做任何事情了。”
3．毒品真面目
一旦“上路”，无论时间长短，1小时也好，10年也罢，毒瘾就会缠身，其势让人惊恐。国家毒品管理署的发言人警告说：“一个人一生的走势就从十几岁开始。如果滥用毒品，这在生理上和心理上都会对你的成长产生深远的影响。”
下面的表格列举了青少年最常见和常用的一些毒品。它告诉你这些毒品究竟有什么害处：从看似无关紧要的皮疹、狂想和恶心，到引起严重的副作用，比如心脏病发作、昏迷、脑损伤和死亡。看看这些，再动动你的脑子，你就会发现“吸毒”听起来决不是什么好主意。
1. be supposed to 应该
2． puff n． 一阵喷烟
3． cocaine n． 可卡因
4． honor roll 光荣榜
5． apply to 适用于
6． catch phrase 警句
7． prom n． 毕业舞会
8． throw back 扔；（此处）喝
9． vomit v． 吐
10． end up 以……告终
11． addicted adj． 上瘾的
12． ecstasy n． 摇头丸
13． nicotine n． 尼古丁
14． counselor n． 顾问
15． stepdad n． 继父
16． dose v． 服药
17． throw up 呕吐
18． coma n． 昏迷
19． up to 达……
20． sodium n． 钠
21． swell [swel] v． 肿
22． abuse n．／v． 滥用
23． marijuana n． 大麻
24． angel dust 天使粉（一种迷幻药）
25． academy n． 研究院
26． hung out 鬼混
27． pot n． （俚）大麻
28． grind [graind] v． 磨
29． all that 到那种程度
30． put through 使经受
31． probation n． 察看
32． refer to 移交
33． inpatient n． 住院病人
34． therapy n． 治疗
35． haunt v． 萦绕，纠缠
36． profound adj． 深远的
37． be exposed to 面对
38． rash n． 皮疹
39． paranoia n． 妄狂想，多疑症
40． nausea n． 恶心
41． hype [haip] n． 骗局
42． puke v． 呕吐
43． a bunch of 一串
44． on adj． 兴奋的
45． collapsed adj． 崩溃，失控
46． vein [vein] n． 情绪
47． infection n． 感染
48． HIV 艾滋病病毒
49． span n． 延续的（一段）时间
50． immunity n． 免疫性
51． tranquilizer n． 镇定剂
52． haze [heiz] n． 薄雾
53． blackout n． 晕眩
54． slur v． 发音不清