Partnership For A Drug Free America - Long Way Home (Early 90s)

[cambellfan22]

i love that piano score, everytime i hear that score, it gets to me, i just love that score

[NegativeOutlook4]

there needs to be more PSA's like this. No "scare the shit out of you" propaganda or guilt trips. Doesn't scold drug users. it just recognizes that this is a problem for some kids and gives a feeling of reassurance and that someone's there for them.

[CaptainZuluGamma]

@NegativeOutlook4 The only reason people do drugs is because they are illegal

Fact that speaks for itself look up when prohibition was lifited on even BOOZE as soon as it was made legal abuse plummeted

Same with all drugs,

The only reason there is problem with drugs is stupid people that refuse reality when the fucking numbers are clear !

I dont want to pay for some junky to get fed three times a day then just do it again WTF, waste of MY money who thinks this stuff up ?

[LatteBoy123]

One of the few anti-drug PSAs I can't laugh at. It highlights the real tragedy behind drugs and the people it affects most. Genuine tragedy.

[yukinagoto]

lol what? you just said what I said then added on a bunch of garbage about big pharma.. I never defended big pharma.

if you are denying meth is nerotoxic... :\

[supersayianpeter10]

does anybody know the piano song?

[TheLovelylove]

I used to think this was Tevin Campbell when I was little,I used to argue about it with my cousins and brother,lol. This one of those PSA's I can still remember word for word.It was scary being a kid in the 90's sometimes,lol.

[Schnauzerbuttcheese]

I keep on saying no to drugs, but the doctors just keep on pressuring me to take them. How come theirs are okay but the street ones aren't? I look up the side effects and the street ones seem less dangerous.

[BRutAL42Zero]

@Schnauzerbuttcheese weed is not any other heroin crack and meth kill and so do pills like extacy and speed

[pur3k0]

@BRutAL42Zero true but speed aint a pill its amphetamine

[yukinagoto]

@pur3k0 Amphetamine is a type of 'speed' that the CIA take (lol)

and speed is more nerotoxic than 'ampetamine' even tho its a stimulant...

[pur3k0]

@yukinagoto speed is methamphetamine better to classified but its also classisified as an amphatamine and speed is another name for meth and tbh this psa is true but the company that made the commercial isnt partnership for a drugfree america which is funded by pharmaceutical companys that fund them and pharmaceutical drugs kill 100,000 a year thats almost 10 times more then all illegal drugs combine and thats just in the us most of partnership for a drug free america commercials are wrong

[demonxthedk]

there will never be a drug free america...EVER

[pur3k0]

@demonxthedk its impossible the cops would have to bust every drug deal that happens every dealer growspot cartel gang and umm thats impossible

[demonxthedk]

@pur3k0 Ya and we have to many natural drugs that will never go away

[pur3k0]

@demonxthedk pot,mushrooms is impossible to go away to get rid of crack and shit youde have to get rid of ammonia from the face of the earth including all coca leaves but will never go away do you hate natural drugs?

[demonxthedk]

@pur3k0 no i love them im high as fuck right now on pot xD

[pur3k0]

@demonxthedk so am i im gunan go smoke another bowl to myself my friend smoked a joint with me got home smoked a joint now gunna go smoke a bowl all in past 2 and a half hrs and i got 2 grams left and getting more tommorow things looking good =D

[demonxthedk]

@pur3k0 Haha nice dude

[pur3k0]

@demonxthedk nice yt picture looks awesome

[demonxthedk]

@pur3k0 Thanks XD

[bigboydubstep]

i think thats called parkour now-a-days

[PregnantFox]

Fuck tha police.

[hippiefreak66]

i think they should play more psas like this. just brutally honest and to the point.

[f1ndp3ac3]

I swear this kid sounds like Huey Freeman from the Boondocks :)

[f1ndp3ac3]

The memories are with me always....... (I miss the 90s) :(

[CrazyCheeseMagee]

FINALLY! A PSA THAT ADMITS THAT JUST SAYING NO DOESN'T WORK! (Especially for kids in the ghetto.)

And it doesn't try to scare you with cheap irrelevant scare tactics; it tries to tug at your heartstrings with a piece about how the War on Drugs hasn't worked as well as they hoped, and once again, that Say NO to Drugs is futile.

[NeverDoubt1]

@CrazyCheeseMagee Not futile. Just not as easy as adults are telling kids.

[cambellfan22]

i still want to find that piano score for this commercial

[MrWii000]

I don't get this PSA

[MrMaryJanes]

This is a pro exercise commercial, right? This kid gets more exercise on the way home than 90% of fat American kids. Good job, random minority kid.

[Ebvardh]

How convenient these guys are sponsored by alcohol companies, tobacco companies, big pharma...

[whiteiswonderful]

I remember this one. I like that I don't have to feel ashamed watching it again. because I have recovered, and am not so much at risk, because i'm all grown up.

[blkplaguelmc]

YES!!! I found it. Isn't crazy how shit like this can stick with you for years. I mean, I knew as soon as this started that it was the commercial I was looking for.

[Smileyyy21]

Damn I remember this one they used to air it alot. I remember not understanding it since I was just 6 or 7 years old.

[chachies]

This is sad, but the truth is, gangs wouldn't be involved with drugs if they were made legal. You simply can't compete. And also, couldn't somebody at least have the heart to pick that kid up after school and walk/drive him home? Or maybe his parents just don't give a shit...

[jeanrollan]

Very, very effective commercial. I could definitely relate. I did the same thing when I was growing up.

[bronze83]

FYI: The dealers didn't sell to the kids they used them as mules because if the kids got caught they wouldn't be sent to prison. Also kids can be easily coerced into to committing dangerous crimes. That's why you have so many child soldiers in 3rd world countries. Drug a kid with some pcp and you have you're own personal robot.

[prlad85]

where was this filmed?

happy thanksgiving. puerto rican love from new york city.

[scorzi]

I remember this commercial floored me as a kid. I grew up in the suburbs and realizing that there were kids out there who had to run home from school like this made me realize how much bigger the world was than just our cul de sac.

[ylwapple45]

Very accurate portrayal of life in the 'hood. Although dealers don't really give out Free samples anymore, the kid is right when he says "they don't take no for an answer". Dealers are known for harassing people that are just minding their business (especially women).

[KiaKerr]

this tha realist drug p.s.a ever made ..... -n- if you didnt get tha point you not real and you not from tha hood..... word up !!!!!!! real nigs no fake cats nver get real things its a shame .... if u felt this joint wht up 3 timse ........1 word up

[joelmagic252]

one of da best hood drug free commercials ever!!!!

[jjtiojohn12]

@joelmagic252  most likely that kid would've been shot, before he got pass that guy

[sasukeluver345]

awww poor kid...i feel for him!

[joeytrimble]

i grew up hanging out with street gangs and not once was i ever offered drugs

[sillygrl23]

Oh I remember this one, I kinda like it. Its personal and to the point and it didn't try to be "hip" or "modern" it just made a point about how even more serious the drug problem in our society is getting.

 I always kinda thought that the older kid watching the younger kid run off was his brother :(

[whoo689]

Does this kid even have the money? I don't think they're gonna offer him drugs, so this was pointless. Drug dealers don't give out free samples. Maybe if the kid in the commercial was twice his age, it'd make more sense?

[DoubleLwithWARZONE]

@whoo689 he might of wanted to get the kid hooked at a early age so he could countiunly get his money when he became older

[blkplaguelmc]

@whoo689 I don't think you really got the message.

[scorpioeddie84]

I remember this commercial from the early to mid 90s. I agree w/ what someone else said on here, It was one of the few, honest PSA adds I remember from my childhood.

[thedirtynasty]

No drug dealer is going to get pissed if you turn down a offer, and there not going to force you to do shit.

If he robs you right after that though hes not a drug dealer anymore, hes just a thief mugging you.

[boofdfast]

I LOVE this psa... It came out around 90-91. It is so memorable and sets the mood. The stare the guy gives him, towards the end of the commercial is so eerie. Last time I saw this was around 96-97.

[scorpioeddie84]

@boofdfast, same here.

[HooLiGaNStuDioS]

This is fucking retarded, dealers could give a shit if a little boy thats 10 doesn't want to buy they're weed. They still got the whole rest of the school.

[SirBroadsword]

Now if all of the PFaDFA PSAs were like this one, it'd be fine, but most of the Partership's ads, instead of being honest and sombre, are nothing short of downright fucking insane, like the one with the creepy mortician where it is heavily implied that he molests the corpses...

[mmmmmmmmmm9999]

One of the very few honest PSA commercials I remember from my childhood.

[crispycrab]

@mmmmmmmmmm9999 SMOKE DRUGS OR I WILL POUND YOU AND KEVIN!!!

[leogurl816]

@mmmmmmmmmm9999 I agree, this psa is kinda different from the others because its heartfelt and makes you feel compassionate and sympathetic towards kids in these situations, it doesn't just pedal corny and ineffective "Just say no" slogans, with music and inappropriate song/dance sequences, as well as biased/missing info. This one gets the job done and the message across. I say Well Done : )

[TheKannabisking]

im sorry but i cant understand a thing that kid is saying, but who cares if i never smoked weed in the first place i would'nt even have this computer

[Donniesmith1975]

Uh, goof. Kevin says that he takes the long way home in order to escape the drug dealers, but in one scene, it looks like Kevin runs right past them, judging from the drug dealer who seems to be staring at Kevin as he slowly turns his head. If Kevin were really taking the long way home, Kevin wouldn`t be anywhere near the drug dealer.

[dan38100]

fucken racist comercial

[TheIsraeliteOutlaw]

I Remember this.

[akn0ledge]

wow, i will never forget this commercial

[redbandmagic]

I love and remember commercials like this because of their poignancy. Sure, the music and the subject matter are depressing and sad but the fact that someone took the time to show the rest of us what's going on gives it an uplifting side too. It's like, we're not gonna push this under the rug any more. We're behind kids like this. We're going to help them.

[superdbzwowie]

I remember this commericial it was so sad...man the 90's had the best PSAs hands down, they made you think....

[HoneyChild]

anyone know the one with the little girl saying "Drugs are bad" and her dog kisses her on the cheek? was that pfadfa?

[LogicLyfe]

Man, DARE programs never did nothing for me,lol. I just wanted the t-shirts, they gave out for completing the program,lol.

[eddiehatesyou]

@LogicLyfe Here, here

The shirts were cool...90s cool

but this commerical gets me depressed

[bonghitsandbigtits]

there will never be a drug free america. so yea "just say no" see how that works HAHA

[fabfive8]

Real Commercial

[RichyJA]

Yea I memba this

[CrazyCheeseMagee]

Say no to drugs has been a failure. The "whole war on drugs" has been as much a failure as Prohibition was back in the 20s. Like this ad says, just saying "No" isn't enough for some some kids to ward off dealers.

[dreamsnicotine]

It's easy to say 'no' when you're in the safety of a classroom or a position of authority.

What influence does the classroom or the words of DARE officers have on protecting a kid when he must meet those challenges on a simple walk back home?

[R0undAboutMidnight]

If drugs were legal, there'd be no dealers. It was the same with alcohol prohibition.

Sooner or later the law will have to change.

[RcDwight]

bullshit. this ad is bullshit

[superdbzwowie]

dont be a douch...kids do face problems like this.

[boofdfast]

@RcDwight  You're a dumbass

[lorenrb]

I am left wondering what the fuck that had to do with anything, as I am when watching all of these ads

[inguerbibr]

Does this mean dealers in his neighborhood give it out for free?

[deltagraph]

weed is da best never get into coke crack heroin cigs or meth or ecstasy but alcohol is o k but i rather deal with someone who is stoned than someone who is drunk

[420andsuch]

ecstasy is actually safe i did some for the first time the other night and it seemed to intoxicate me less than pot but was still incredible i heard that if you take it in large doses are very frequently than it will mess you up though

[dreamsnicotine]

Be careful. The effects of ecstasy can occur months or even few years later. After being in the scene for over a decade, I can tell you that no one who's been using ecstasy on a regular basis is as happy as they used to be. All of them have some depression.

[420andsuch]

yeah its not something you should do on a regular basis but taking it every now and then like once or twice every two months or something like that is good...just because of the incredible feeling you get

[dreamsnicotine]

I agree. Weed causes less harm than alcohol.

[crackrocksteady16]

Partnership For A Drug Free America is funded by alcohol and tobacco companies.Open your eyes people, I recommend everyone watch a documentary called the american drug war:the last white hope

[blickblocks]

They don't take no for an answer? Sounds like a poorly thought out business. Kids typically don't have much cash on them anyway.

[420andsuch]

yeah what do they do? beat the shit out of the kids, take the money, and then politely put some drugs in their pocket...for the trouble the kid had to go through

[dreamsnicotine]

It's not about giving away bags of heroin. It's the real influence that these users and dealers have on susceptible children when they are outside the classroom. How much protection can these words offer when you're a child facing these realities each time you go home?

[SpeCulaTionS101]

@blickblocks: Have you ever bought drugs in a bad neighborhood? It's not like the suburbs where you can turn shit down if you feel like it. In some neighborhoods dealers will literally kill you for turning shit down. Now think of how the kid must feel having to LIVE in a neighborhood like that. I usually hate these kind of commercials, but this one is true.

[britzman1]

RACIST!

[eandjrecordz]

Hey folks. This is the real "Kevin Scott". That was only my staging name. I cannot believe all of you who remember this. It was actually taped on my 13th bday too. What good memories.

[posthumanfetus]

I actually agree with this one. I had to take the long way home too.

[darrellkaiser1985]

I remember seeing this ad at the movie theater before the movie. Scared the hell out of me!

[tumeg8282]

fuck this evil propaganda

[GLHat]

I'm still looking for the PDFA ad where there's a blond girl with her face slowly becoming disfigured while a weird version of "Happy Birthday" plays in the bkgrnd...the ad ends with a white sheet tossed over her face (?)

It freaked me out back then, so I MUST see it again!

[Barogas]

I remember that commercial. I saw it once and that was enough. I remember her face getting worse from the ravages of drug addiction, then the final shot she was basically dead, a corpse, her eyes glazed over, then the sheet was pulled over her face.

I'm guessing that commercial was banned, I could stomach a lot of horror movies, and that commercial just disturbed me.

[thisStefLOVESmakeup]

@GLHat I've been looking for that for years!!!! I can't find it at all...anywhere :/

[mvitt86]

On the real man I was born in 86' and fuck all they would do is feed these commercials and wrong opinions to kids minds and I smoke and found out all the facts hahaha WEED REVOLUTION!

[FunnyFreshman]

I was probably 5 years old walking a block home from kindergarten, I'd turn on afternoon cartoons and then this commercial would make me feel really afraid and alone walking home :\

[syncere397]

some scary ass commercials, i remember i was so frightened as a child, was anyone else?

[guardianshaven]

Yeah, the 1980's PDFA commercials were scary as hell.

One of the freakiest I ever saw was a kid on marionette strings smoking pot with carnival music in the background.

The main message was : "They say smoking pot is cool. They're pulling your strings"...just as the kid goes limp in mid air.

Freaky

[AlanStoneFan]

mortician one was funny

[guardianshaven]

lol Yeah, it is now. Although if I had seen it as a kid, I probably would have freaked the fuck out.

[sexidimplez08]

That Had To Be The Most Saddest Commercial I've Ever Seen..[I'd Walk Home WIth Him]. =[

[iloveoreos15]

man i wanna cry this is a realitic commercial. but commercials these days aint gonna affect nobody thats even sadder. we should just leave people be, its their decision. sounds weird when u say it toyourself, cus it makes u suspicious about America's drug laws.

[Donniesmith1975]

It DOES look like Kevin is running because he stole something.....

[riksux]

If Oakland, California is THAT ugly and dirty,

you're better off to use drugs as to bother to waste the

effort to clean it up!

[mrsmanilow]

I remember i liked this PSA. Not the same old just say no shit

[harveydentaka]

sad verry sad commercial but he isnt running cause of the drug dealers no no

he is runnin cause he stole something >_> run kevin RUN!!! >_>

[bitchyb73]

stupid ass!!

[outlaw2747]

The PSAs nowadays are garbage. They leave no lasting impression. The message is too vague. They don't put in fear, concern, or awareness. It is as if they are doing it just to fill a niche instead of doing the job. 90s and earlier, at least they put some effort and heart (and some fear trust me) into PSAs.

[CrazyCheeseMagee]

Yeah, but some of those, particularly from the 80s (not necessarily the 90s) were incredibly ridiculous like the one where Pee Wee Herman talks to kids about crack, trying to be serious, but because he's Pee Wee, he fails. But this PSA, and an anti-drug one more specifically about the straight edge movement, are two of my favorites.

[outlaw2747]

Paul Reuben should have done that PSA. NOT Pee Wee. Only the music made it scary and the style.

[CrazyCheeseMagee]

Yeah, Paul Reuben would've been good since he can be more than Pee Wee. (Surprisingly, he actually played a drug dealer in the movie Blow.) Or maybe some celebrity who reformed after doing lots of drugs. (There were probably a lot of drugged celebrities back then, even if they didn't reform such as two of the members of Aerosmith known for their heavy drug use.)

But one of the weirdest once I've seen was the one where they gave drugs their own theme song and even talked about good drugs.

[outlaw2747]

Let me guess, you're a Nostalgic Critic fan like I am right?

[CrazyCheeseMagee]

Yes, I am. Interesting how many NC fans there are out there. And truthfully, I've never seen any of the PSAs on his list before I saw the episode. But one thing I am glad about is that we seem to be mostly past that awkward stage in the 80s and 90s where everyone and everything had a rap number. Even Tiny Toons had an episode where they rapped for about ten minutes. (It was the episode where Buster was wrongly accused of stealing a slushie machine.)

[outlaw2747]

Ahhh cool. I think today is badly hip-hopped out these days. And of course drugs are still seen as popular...morons.

[CrazyCheeseMagee]

Well, there's always straight-edge to make abstaining from drugs "the cool thing to do".

[NewColdness]

Straightedge makes nothing cool.

[bitchyb73]

what the FUCK does that have to do with this shithead?! oh right any excuse to bash hip-hop dumb fuck

[outlaw2747]

Ahhh another person that resorts to ad hominem attacks to prove no valid point other than how much of a complete jackass they can make of themselves. It has nothing do to with the commercial but the popularity of drugs are in fact influenced by hip hop artists. Any "shithead" can see that.

[harveydentaka]

ok u dumbshit it was fuckin joke

if u dont chill the fuck out ur geti hit with my slege hammer

now chill or so help me god

ur brains will be splatterd i promise mother fucker

[vfreeck]

The problem today is PSAs lack any fear factor.

Part of the reason is because they eliminated the synthesizers.

[outlaw2747]

I agree. Another part is a lack of words with meaning.

[jjtiojohn12]

I agree, psa's these days have no substance or meaning did you see the new drug psa out to day? horrible! (Don't be a patsy?) I swear every year they get worse!

[ajmusiq83]

@vfreeck oh snap its the dude from sohh!

[TJNightshayde]

@vfreeck I agree whole-heartedly. Fear needs to be a part of messages like this truly hitting. If you asked anyone who was subjected to these messages over formative years (I'm 25 so I remember these very clearly from childhood) and asked them which ones really resonated with them, I'd say that the smart money would be ones like this. The ones with the cutesy acting, and unbelievable scenarios may be remembered but you need that bite that only fear can drive home.

[Donniesmith1975]

Eric, an 11 year old may not have money to buy dope but his parents do. The drug dealers usually give the first try free and then the kid gets hooked on drugs and the drug dealer no longer gives it free. Then the kid ends up stealing money from his parents to support his drug addiction. And the parents rarely blame the 11 year old for the missing money. They usually blame the older kids, or the parents blame each other for the missing money.

[bapee105]

That's absolutely stupid. no dealers give out their first hits free. thats just a waste of their shit, and theres no guarantee that kids gonna come back to the same dealer every time

oh a btw, where the fuck did you get the idea that you can get hooked after the first hit? show me the stats fuckface. its impossible for the changes in the brain that happen in physical addiction to manifest themselves after one exposure to a chemical.

dipshit

[johntallen2]

For real man. They make it look like you get hooked the first time. I've done H before in the mindset of not doing it ever again, just an experiment. No withdrawals and just went back to smoking weed. For someone to get addicted they usually do it like this. Maybe once a month, then every weekend, then on mondays, then tuesdays, etc. You get addicted by not caring.

[Donniesmith1975]

Mr. Monty he is running away from drug dealers because he does not want to get hooked on drugs and mess up his life. But if I didnt know any better id think he was running away from home, especially in the scene where he throws his book bag over the fence and then climbs over the fence. Or I would think that he is running away after committing a crime such as stealing.

[NYCPANCAKES]

Are you serious? I saw this ad as a kid even before the little boys voice over I knew he was trying to avoid someone. You do hear the dialogue? This used to really make me feel his situation and it (as a kid) blew my mind.

[mrmonty86]

WHAT IS HE RUNNING FROM

[CinnamonGal26]

They don't make classic PSA's like this anymore. I miss the 90's.

[EriceSpleen]

As if some 11-year-old has money lying around to buy dope.

[NYCPANCAKES]

Lol, I used to be concerned as a kid about drugs and drug dealers. Then when I grew up I realized, drug dealers don't want kids, kids have no money. They want people with money.

[Quawna88]

This is a deep PSA.

[CodyRicheson]

As far as I know, drug dealers aren't going to fuck with someone who obviously doesn't want their business. If someone doesn't buy it another will.

[Kentaro260]

I salute this little guy

[ChachiTelevision1979]

I love laughing at PSAs, but this one was a pretty good one. It was a bit more honest.

[ILoveES33]

I've been looking for this for years! I remember seeing this all the time! It still gives me pause to this day.

[mikeymac00]

I remember seeing this on tv. It was cause of shit like this I was scared to walk down the street when I was like 7..I thought some random drug dealer would pop out of a corner and shoot me up with heroin or something to get me addicted...

[tunafan1]

i still don't understand what he's running from... but its a very depressing commercial

[JadoreLulu]

I think he's running from the dealers, because he's scared one of them will offer him drugs.

[jimjams91]

He's running because he is determined not to be pestered by drug dealers. He wants to make something out his life.

[rizzledizzled]

@tunafan1 he is running, because he is taking the long way home, and it probably goes twice as fast if he sprints the whole way

[scorpioeddie84]

@tunafan1

He's running home from school (hence the backback) and like Jadore said, he's trying to run from/avoid the drug dealers.

[Suave8O4]

Damn Rugger

[deligenius]

Damn i remember this as a kid like around '92-'94...didn't really get the meaning until re-watching it now...definately one of the best psa's ever hands down...

[jubgiproductions]

This was a really sad, psa

This was in the mid 90's, when I was living in Houston,Tx

[darko212]

early 90's...i've seen it 98743543593 times growing up. but it's realistic if you live in the ghetto or inner-city..

[rustcoal]

sad

[corrupt200]

I first saw it in c. 1992 or 1993, so it is early 90s

[pjwrestlingfan619]

i saw it during the commercial break of the flintstones in hollyrock a bye baby

[1stGuard]

I saw this PSA when I was really little too back in the early 90s, it came on when I watched Batman animated and Tiny Toons. But,since I grew up in the inner city, when I got a little older and walked home from school by myself, I ended up like Kevin Scott in this PSA, I had to take the long way home to avoid the drug dealing street gangs that owned our neighborhoods. I had no one to look out for me, and it's true, they DON'T take 'No' for an answer and I was close to being another statistic.

[pjwrestlingfan619]

i feel for u

[AngelsFstyle]

Damn, what a sad PSA... it just doesn't get anymore real than this!

[Guitarhero87x]

I remember seeing this on tv, but i don't think this this was in the early 90s, maybe more in the mid-late 90s.

Whatever happened to that kid? lol