Substance Abuse

• Freevibe [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Teen approach to peer pressure, anti-drug message and the media. Personal stories, online games, and message boards.
• In the Mix - Altered States [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - PBS documentary gives personal accounts about drugs, their effects, and the physical, mental, and legal consequences of using. Includes statistics, messages from teens, marijuana poll, get or give advice, resources, and US hotline numbers.
• Kids Against Drugs: Just for Teens [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Presents facts, humor, promotional items and advice on how to talk to parents about drug use and similar topics.
• Mind Over Matter [ Kids/Teens ] - Series teaches students in grades five through nine about the effects of drugs, steroids, and nicotine on the body.
• The Science Behind Drug Abuse [ Teens ] - National Institute on Drug Abuse offers facts on drug use and the brain. Includes answers to common questions, real stories from teens with addictions, and games and quizzes to test teens' knowledge of drugs and their effects.
• TeensHealth: Dealing With Addiction [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Find out what you can do if you think you or a friend has a drug or alcohol addiction. Explains signs, getting help, and staying clean.
• TeensHealth: Drugs: What You Should Know [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Gives street names, usage, effects, and addictiveness for legal and illegal drugs.
• ThinkQuest: Drugs [ Kids/Teens ] - Offers facts, consequences, and options to drug use. Includes discussion of marijuana, heroin, cocaine, tobacco, and alcohol. [No longer accepting story endings or emails to kids.]
• WebMD - Teen Alcohol and Drug Abuse [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Find information, prevention, and treatments for teens' use and abuse of alcohol and drugs.
• What You Need to Know About Drugs [ Kids/Teens ] - Article explains how drugs affect the human body. Includes a look at why people use drugs, along with warning signs of drug abuse and tips for helping friends who are using drugs.

Alcohol

• Alcohol [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Explains what it is, what it does in the body, and why young people drink. Also discusses too much alcohol and how to keep safe.
• Alcohol Explained [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - The effects and consequences of alcohol use and abuse are described and illustrated by young teenagers.
• Ask Listen Learn [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Features interactive quizzes, polls, games, facts and advice on how to say no to alcohol. [Requires Flash]
• The Cool Spot [ Kids/Teens ] - Games, quizzes, animation and graphics explain the risks of underage drinking and ways to resist peer pressure.
• Drinking: It Can Spin Your World Around: Facts for Teens [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Answers why to say no, health problems, peer pressure, how to know when drinking is a problem, and how to stop. Includes alcohol content in drinks, laws, and sobering up.
• In the Mix: Alcohol Abuse [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - The online companion to the PBS broadcast, with information and resources for teens and educators on alcohol abuse.
• Kids and Alcohol [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Article explores the long-term affects of alcohol as well as the dangers of early use. Includes warning signs of alcoholism.
• MADD: Under 21 [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Information for middle and high school students about underage drinking and its impacts. Includes research, discussions, and ways to get involved.
• TeensHealth: Coping With an Alcoholic Parent [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Explains what alcoholism is, why a parent drinks and why they don't stop. Includes how teens feel, other problems, and what to do.
• Too Smart to Start Youth [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Gives information about alcohol and what it does to the body. Includes advice from other teens, play a memory game, or download a puzzle. (Puzzles require free Flash or Adobe download)

Tobacco

• Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Spoofs of ads, including some highly entertaining looks at cigarette advertising.
• American Dental Speciality Institute - Tobacco and Dental Health [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - How smoking can make your teeth fall out.
• The Badvertising Institute [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Spoofs cigarette ads.
• Blowing Smoke [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Offers information by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies.
• Don't be a Dip [ Kids/Teens ] - Information for kids about the effects of using spit ("smokeless") tobacco.
• Educational Support Materials on Cancer [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Reports and slide presentations on tobacco industry youth prevention programs, kids and tobacco, and spit tobacco. In Word and PowerPoint format.
• Effects of Anti- and Pro-smoking Advertising in Convenience Stores [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Research finds that point-of-purchase cigarette ads at convenience stores influence teen smoking.
• How Smoking Affects The Way You Look [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - ASH-UK factsheet covers how smoking affects the skin, body shape, and weight.
• In the Mix - Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - PBS show shows smoking damage to your health right now and in the near future, not just 40 years down the line.
• The Irreversible Health Effects of Cigarettes [ Mature Teens ] - Pamphlet available to download, from American Council on Science and Health. Quitting greatly reduces risks, but some effects of smoking are permanent.
• Kids Against Tobacco Smoke [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - UK site features facts about cancer, nicotine and the effect of smoke, firsthand and secondhand, a chance to join the Kids Against Tobacco Smoking campaign, and a message board for kids.
• KIISS - Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Dedicated to eliminating kids' involuntary inhalation of secondhand smoke; features a "Share A Story" section.
• Maryland Teens Rejecting Abusive Smoking Habits (T.R.A.S.H.) [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Statewide initiative comprised of youth coalitions that have taken a stand against tobacco use. Offers a list of events and opportunities to become involved.
• Memos Highlight Importance Of 'Younger Adult Smokers' [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Washington Post article summarizes what the tobacco industry says in its internal memos about getting kids to smoke.
• Mind Over Matter - How Nicotine Affects the Brain [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - How nicotine acts on the brain, and why it's so addictive.
• Passive Smoking (Living With A Smoker) [ Kids ] - Information about what it is, what is in the smoke, what can happen, and what to do about it.
• Quit Because [ Mature Teens ] - Contains a thought provoking video, regular competitions, a forum and stop smoking support. Also includes informative and controversial smoking issues, sections on the effects on the body, facts and myths and free postcards and stickers.
• Sick of Smoke [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - The facts, straight up, on smoking. No guilt-trips. No nagging. TV ads online.
• Smoke-FX [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Helps youth make choices, take charge, and act locally on tobacco control issues. It features information, online activities and links to resources created by Ontario communities.
• Smokeless Tobacco [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - What it is, where it comes from, who chews, what it does to you, and quitting.
• Smoking [ Kids ] - Discusses why people start smoking, why they continue smoking, and good and bad news.
• Smoking: Don't Let It Steer You Wrong: Facts for Teens [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - What's in cigarettes, addiction, spit tobacco, reasons to quit, how to make quitting easier, and nicotine gum and patches.
• The Smoking Handbook [ Kids/Teens ] - A description of tobacco and the effects of smoking, written by kids for kids.
• Smoking Stinks! [ Kids ] - Learn what smoking does to the body, why it's bad, and what to do if a friend smokes.
• Special Report: Big Tobacco: Still Addicting Kids [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Research reports on tobacco industry and marketing to kids bofore and after the Master Settlement Agreement with the states in November 1998.
• StepUpNC.com [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Learn about tobacco and tobacco use prevention and control. Includes health issues, reasons to quit, help-a-friend, message boards, and pledge and memorial walls.
• stupid.ca [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Forum for youth to share their thoughts and find out more about the tobacco industry and smoking.
• TASK [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Kansas youth speaking out about big tobacco companies; news and information on how tobacco companies target teens, and how teens can fight back.
• Teens Take on Big Tobacco [ Mature Teens ] - In April 2003, 200 teens went to the "belly of the beast" to confront the CEO of tobacco giant Philip Morris; this is what happened, and how you can be a part of it in 2004.
• Teenz247 [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Smoke-free hangout offers games, message boards, local news for teens, and articles to help teenagers in making smart decisions about drugs, smoking, and alcohol.
• thetruth.com [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Information on cigarettes, smoking, other tobacco products. HTML and Flash sections.
• They're Rich, You're Dead [ Mature Teens ] - University of Miami School of Medicine's Tobacco Awareness Program for Community Youth. "We want you to see what we see in our hospital patients every day from the use of tobacco". Uses RealPlayer for video.
• Tobacco Explained: Marketing to Youth [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Heavily documented from the tobacco industry's own internal memos, reports on how the industry promotes cigarettes and smoking to youth.
• Tobaccofree.org [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Anti-smoking group offers a tobacco prevention message for grades 6-12, educational videos, quit smoking tips, anti-tobacco motivational speakers, and related resources.
• The World's Fastest Clown: Kids Corner [ Kids ] - Learn about the dangers of tobacco. Includes games, puzzles, coloring pages, and posters. [Requires Shockwave]
• 19 year old Sean Marsee's Tobacco Message [ Mature Teens ] - High school athlete Sean Marsee's experience with smokeless tobacco and snuff.
• You and Me Smokefree [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Health Canada site offering information about what's in cigarettes, facts and figures, and how to quit.
• Young Smokers Risk Greater Genetic Damage [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Brief article discusses the increased risk to teens who smoke. Includes changes to genetic material, damage to all smokers and cancer causing chemicals.
• Youth smoking prevention program [ Kids/Teens ] - Get paid $5,000 to not smoke and graduate (Canada).

Steroids

• Anabolic Steroid Abuse [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Scientific research about the effects of steroids, abuse and addiction from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
• Anabolic Steroids in Sports [ Teens ] - Side effects, athletes caught abusing, and a special look at the effects of steroids on teenagers.
• Going For Dope [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Tells the story of a former boxer whose steroid use led to the amputation of his legs. Includes audio clip and facts about his boxing career.
• Steroids [ Kids/Teens ] - Part of a Thinkquest site, detailing athletes who have gotten caught using steroids to enhance performance, and other stories.
• Steroids [ Teens ] - Made by a biology student. Includes vocabulary, effects, why people use steroids, and mistakes made by steroid abusers.
• Steroids [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Overview of what medical steroids are, signs of use, dangers, and stories of use.
• Steroids, Sports and Athletic Performance [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - What they are, what they do, effects on behavior, and getting help.
• Taylor Hooton Foundation [ Mature Teens ] - Raising awareness about the dangers of steroid abuse, with facts, newsletter and list of speaking engagements.
• TeensHealth: Are Steroids Worth the Risk? [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Explains what they are, whether they work, dangers for boys and girls, and healthy alternatives.
• What Steroids Can Do to You [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Includes an overview of the history of steroid abuse in the athletics circles, side effects, and links to other sites offering steroid abuse information.