Drugs, smoking and alcohol usage are frequently depicted and used as talking points and plotlines throughout the series.
A character smokes cigarettes in her bedroom, hiding it from her disapproving family by doing it out the window. She is later caught smoking with a gang of boys at school.
A girl steals alcohol from her brother and brings it to a party.
A group of girls get extremely drunk after discovering their parents' liquor cabinet; they stumble down the street singing their school's anthem off-key, they dance drunkenly at school, and one girl vomits.
Characters try marijuana, and the different effects is has on them are portrayed. A girl finds the marijuana stashed in a tampon machine at school; two rolled joints are shown on-screen.
A boy offers another boy LSD to try at a concert. The boy puts a strip of it on his tongue; this boy is later said by two RCMP officers to have jumped off a bridge during a bad acid trip.
Boys smoke, drink and gamble at an all-night party.
Adults drink wine at a restaurant.
Boys try smoking cigarettes in a bathroom stall.
Boys sit outside one night and drink beer (except for one, who argues that his parents were killed by a drunk driver). All three boys are discovered by the police and get in trouble for public intoxication.