We know what you’re thinking…but no…this is not some redneck posting on a church message board. This is an actual "information" pamphlet from the 90’s by the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, which gets its funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Apparently it is still being distributed!
It informs us that when you do drugs you get really stupid and might "get romantic" with someone. Then you could get AIDS, because when you do drugs like alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine you "just don’t care." Information pamphlets that talk cool to try to freak teens out are usually pretty funny, but this thing kills two birds with one stone in a way that is just plain confusing.
It tries to use AIDS to scare kids off both sex and drugs all at once, and ends up totally diluting all of the issues it "tackles." It doesn’t even really talk about contaminated needles, which is really the only firm straight line you can draw from consensual drug use to HIV.
The best part of the page is the comic, in which a hip urban teen with a flat-top, Fresh Prince shirt and shell-toes says, or (as the caps might suggest) screams, to his girlfriend "I DON’T DO DRUGS!" Her confusing response to him is "I’m not interested."…What? That doesn’t make any sense at all. Who proof-reads these things?