When I was younger my Father would let me watch a show, America's Most Wanted. They did one episode about heroin and how bad it was. Well, later that night I was laying in bed thinking about heroin when I decided I needed a glass of water. I jump off my bed and feel a prick on my foot. I FREAKED OUT. Leaped back onto my bed, shouting and screaming because I thought there were people under the floor sticking needles up through my carpet to inject me with heroin. After that I'd wear sneakers all the time, afraid that if I didn't I'd be injected with heroin and become an addict.

Awesome.

my friend thought that "track marks" were something you got from running track. we were 16 at the time. and she ran track.

Anon

when i was little, the first time i had heard about "crack" was when i was 7 years old. well.. one day i was in a store, this man said"give me some crack" i was thinking that the two men would go into the bathroom and stiff eack others crack to get high. later years i learned that" crack kills"

j boogie

I used to believe that "paraphernalia" was "pair of vanilla." I couldn't understand why people would be arrested for having two of a flavor.

Anon

When i was in middle school, i told my best friend that if you put a salt and vinegar potato chip in your mouth and inhaled,you could get high....she was "Addicted" to them for an entire year.

Salt and Vinegar Free in New York

when I was young I was afraid of going into crowds in the city because I'd heard that people would come up to you and spike you with PCP and make you an addict...

robbie

I used to believe that at dance clubs, the "smoke" that they'd spray was laden with drugs and I'd get high.

Lynn

When I was little, I used to think that taking any kind of medicine if used when you didn't need it was like taking drugs. My friends once were sucking on cough drops, and since they weren't sick I thought they were doing drugs and would get addicted. Needless to say I was freaking out.

FrEaKpRiNcEsSjEn

In the fourth grade (I was in a 7th day adventist school) our whole class took a survey about drugs. One of the questions were, "Have you ever smoked pot?" Well I thought smoking pot was to boil water in a pot and breathe in the steam. So I put yes. Boy was I so embaressed after learning what pot really was...

Damian

I used to believe that "smoking pot" involved melting something in a large pot until it smoked; a smoking pot. That commercial with the egg and the "this is your brain on drugs" did not help clear up this confusion!

shelley

When I was about 5 or so I remember first hearing about people "taking pot". I used to think people ripped open cigarettes, poured the contents into a saucepan, light the stove and smoke the pan like a cigarette.

Pablo

Until I was about eleven, I thought that people only did drugs in the U.S. and Mexican people sold it to them. I always wanted to live in England because I thought they didn't do drugs there.

lexzie

When i was about 10 i saw on the bench a syringe (with no needle) that my mum had been using to squirt medicine into my baby sisters mouth, we had recently had a drug talk at school so i thought my mum was a drug addict...i seriously panicked.

Jess

When Elvis died, and I heard on the radio that drugs were the reason, I assumed that they meant aspirin, since that was the only drug I knew.

Tricia

I learned in the fourth grade that mixing drugs with drinks could kill you. A few months after when I was sick, my mom told me to swallow my advil with water. I cried because I thought she was trying to kill me!

Clueless Cold

I thought drugs were egg-like things that sizzled.
(My view came from that commercial of two eggs--"This is your brain"-- and then two eggs frying in a pan--"this is your brain on drugs.")

Dilusional

When I was about 4 i used to think that people only did drugs in the winter. (u had to do the in the dark and it wasn,t dark before my curfew in summer!)

Engerlund child

I remember when I was in the fifth grade and the DARE officer came in and showed us the drug case, there was a stamp in there with a picture of dancing monkies on it. When he got to the stamp, he explained people would stick it on their skin and get the drugs that way and the cute monkies might make it enticing to a kid. I didn't understand that this stamp had drugs in the adhesive on the back and from then on thought that sticking a postage stamp on my skin would kill me or make me very sick. And I was very wary of anyone (doctors offices, parade people, etc) who handed out stickers or stamps to little kids.

K.

I used to believe, probably up until the age of 12 or so (sad) that a "Drugstore" was a place to sell actual drugs. And I thought I was so clever, mainly because I thought I could help the police cut back on the drug problem infiltrating our society, cause hey, I knew where all the drugstores were...

Chatel

I always heard about how you shouldn't do drugs in school, and I always wondered why they didn't just make them illegal if they were so bad for you. I didn't know until I was about 12 that marijuana and such are indeed illegal.

Anon