While most people know that teen drug abuse isn't limited to high-crime neighborhoods, they may not realize that honor students are turning to drugs, too -- not to get high at parties but to get A's on tests. Y-Press spoke with three teens who have seen the inside of this unconventional substance abuse epidemic: Penelope, a recent graduate of Cathedral High School; Maynard, a student at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School; and Connie, who finished her sophomore year at a public school last year and attends a private school now.

Most students have sat in a classroom where a rowdy boy has a difficult time concentrating, frequently disrupting the class or struggling with schoolwork. Michael Orozco, 16, a Westfield High School student, used to exemplify that kind of boy. "I was hyped up all the time," he said, laughing. "I would tell the teacher I needed to go the bathroom and go to gym and not come back to class."