Kind of reminds me when college basketball star (and Boston Celtics draftee) Len Bias tried cocaine (or maybe it was crack) for the very first time and it killed him.
I think that the story of Len Bias would influence far more young people not to take drugs than the story of people have were seriously messed up, even for a long time, then stopped using drugs and recovered. The latter stories just tell teenagers that they can “Party“ using drugs and then stop when they feel like it.
A short video of Len Bias playing basketball, being selected as (one of?) the top pick for the NBA, and then EMTs rolling him out of his townhouse dead on a stretcher covered by a white sheet, would be far more impactful. A death like that of Len Bias is a possibility every single time a person uses “recreational” drugs.