60 Ways to Say NO to Drugs

Parents - you asked for 60 Ways to be added to our new site and here it is! This is a great exercise to print out and review with your kids. Have them think up ways in which they would say no to drugs and then role play using their answers. 

Want to say no to drugs, but don't know how? There's so many ways to say it. Here's some suggestions! If you can think of more ways to say no, write them down!

1. No, I already eat too much junk food.
2. Top three answers on the board, survey says… NO!
3. No thanks, I'm into reality.
4. Got a pen? Write this down… No.
5. No, not now. Ask me again in a billion years.
6. Right now's no good. How's never?
7. Two words: N - O.
8. Abracadabra! Oh, sorry - though you would disappear.
9. Haven't you seen the fried egg in those ads?
10. Look at the time. Gotta go.
11. I'll pass.
12. No way, put it away.
13. Are you crazy?
14. Sorry, I got stuff to do.
15. Not today, not tomorrow. How about never?
16. Nah, I have plans today.
17. See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya.
18. No can do.
19. Nope. Smell ya later!
20. No, but if you have any chocolate…
21. I've got to get home and walk my dog.
22. No, I don't know where that stuff's been.
23. No, I might wind up in one of those ads.
24. I don't have time for drugs.
25. I don't want your life.
26. Sorry, I'm on a drug-free diet.
27. Uhhh…let me think… No!
28. Not now. Maybe in the next millennium.
29. You must be mistaking me for an idiot.
30. I don't think so.
31. Poof!
32. I'd rather eat my mother's mystery casserole.
33. No, it's not my style.
34. No. And get a life while you're at it.
35. I'm on my way to the mall.
36. Did you just ask me if I wanted to do drugs? I didn't think so.
37. No, I don't talk to strangers, stranger.
38. No, I'm already weird enough.
39. I prefer my brown eyes to your red ones.
40. My parents did and look at them now.
41. No, it'll violate my parole.
42. What part of "no" don't you understand?
43. I'll say it slow for you, "nnnnooo."
44. How do they say "NO" on your planet?
45. No, I have a very busy schedule.
46. No, no, a thousand times no.
47. No offense, but no.
48. Gee thanks, but I'm high on life.
49. No, somebody might see us.
50. No. Get it? Got it? Good.
51. No, my imagination is good enough already.
52. No, if I want to look stupid I'll become a mime.
53. Let's not go there.
54. No, you might be an undercover cop.
55. No, I got places to go, people to see.
56. No, in fact never.
57. Not tonight, I have a headache.
58. No, I like my brain the way it is.
59. No thanks, I might get kicked off the Math team.
60. No, and that's my final answer!

"60 Ways to Say NO to Drugs" courtesy of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Partnership of a Drug-Free America.

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