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Describes how students at the Eastern Intermediate School in Silver Spring, Maryland, took charge of their drug education, and turned their experiences into an award-winning documentary, `If you change your mind,' about the dangers of drugs. Plans of the National Institute on Drug Abuse to distribute the video to schools nationwide; Use of animation to explain how cocaine interferes with normal communication between neurons in the brain; Shocking messages; Contact point.

Summarizes news topics related to drug abuse in the United States. Launch of an education program regarding drug abuse called Parents Reaching Out to Understand Drugs in Baltimore County, Maryland; Report by the University of Michigan on drug and alcohol consumption among high school athletes.