From a cousin, Margaret learns why trying on adult behaviors is not a smart thing for kids to do. V-5119 Lorne's Big Decision Young students have created their own video to alert others about the hazards of cigarettes and to counter the pressure of those that would encourage them to try it. Interviews with those who have been there and escaped, including Lonnie Bushey, make the point that the price of entry may be death. The narrator delivers essential and incriminating information about how meth speeds up the heart rate uncontrollably and attacks the central nervous system. But something happens in the next dozen years.
Teens often seem to develop the habit of saying yes to stupid or dangerous behavior.
Refusal Skills features a live audience of teens, an energetic host, and a series of well acted mini-dramas showing teens faced with temptations to skip school, take drugs, and have premarital sex. The Truth About Drinking Alcohol kills more than five times the number of people killed by cocaine, heroin, and every other illegal drug combined. Yet for today's teenagers, alcohol is the number one drug of choice. Few if any of these young people think about the consequences. In this program, teens who are current drinkers see firsthand what the future may hold for them if they continue to drink.