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How does cocaine affect your brain? Can using cocaine cause seizures? Can using cocaine once be deadly? Find out how doctors answered these questions about cocaine from teens.
What exactly is heroin? And how is it different from legal drugs? Students asked, and doctors answered these questions and more during NIDA’s “Chat Day.”
Earlier this year, NIDA hosted it's annual “Chat Day” – a live online chat between teens and NIH scientists. See more student questions and doctor answers about inhalants.
At their annual 'Chat Day,' the National Institute on Drug Abuse gave students across the country a chance to ask doctors anything about drugs. Find out what you really want to know about marijuana.