Month: October 2025

Team: CHS ION Team C

School: Catholic High School (Secondary)

A teenager tempted by peer pressure struggles between fitting in and making the right choice—until reality forces a moment of truth.

Team: HKGHS

School: St. Margaret’s School (Secondary)

Rebecca, a troubled teen, has been facing challenges at home where her father abuses her. Seeking relief, she accepts drugs from her friend, believing that it would ease her pain. Instead, she felt even worse. The teacher also reminded the class that drugs were illegal. This made Rebecca fear the serious consequences she could face.

Team: Digital Decisions

School: Yio Chu Kang

A story of a boy named Jeremy who’s tempted by his friends by a new popular drug. In the midst of the temptation, he falls into this rabbit hole of addiction.
His life slowly crumbles apart as he continues to take the drug. Eventually, it’s revealed that the entire scenario was in his head. Approached by his friends like at the start, he refuses, knowing that if he took it he would have faced tremendous consequences

Team: Reel Crew

School: Unity Secondary School

When teenagers face overwhelming stress from school friends and family expectations, some may turn to drugs as a way to cope. While drugs may seem to provide temporary relief, they often lead to serious consequences such as strained relationships. In extreme cases, some of them feel so isolated and misunderstood that they resort to running away from home. However, running away exposes them to greater dangers such as homelessness, exploitation and substance abuse. Families are left devastated, struggling with guilt and fear for their child, while the teenager faces an uncertain future filled with instability and risk.

Team: schlondpoofa

School: Unity Secondary School

“Hypes fade, damage stays” reminds us that the excitement of drugs is short-lived, but the danger and harm lasts for as long as we live. The excitement may disappear quickly, leaving behind unhealthy lifestyles, relationships, and dreams. Choose wisely—true strength comes from living drug-free, where your future remains bright and your choices don’t cause longterm, damaging scars.

Team: Team Karma

School: St. Anthony’s Canossian Secondary School

A troubled girl turned to drug dealing for survival, gaining money but losing herself. Eventually caught, she faced the consequences of her choices. Through struggle and reflection, she found strength to change. Leaving behind her destructive past, she embraced a new path of hope, resilience and redemption.

Team: CHS ION Team A

School: Catholic High School (Secondary)

“Influence.” follows Xander Lim, a promising student whose life begins to unravel under the weight of peer pressure and the constant pull of media culture. Coaxed by friends and drawn in by the glamorised portrayals of drug use on podcasts and social media, Xander slips from curiosity into dependency. As his world shrinks, he isolates himself from his family and chases fleeting highs, blind to the cracks forming in his future. When his mother finally confronts Xander, he is forced to face the irreversible damage and question whether he still has the strength, or the time, to turn back.

Team: HYSS infocomm

School: Hua Yi Secondary School

The boy, crushed by school stress and expectations, searches online for relief and finds social media posts praising vapes and drug-laced pods as quick fixes. Believing they will boost his stamina and calm his anxiety, he experiments in secret. Instead of help, the vaping spirals into an overdose that leaves him injured and collapsing in a school bathroom. A frantic friend calls for help and he is hospitalized. Through the presence of friends and family — letters, visits, and encouragement — he slowly recovers, learning that temporary fixes are dangerous and true healing comes from support and care, not vaping.

Team: R. Nation Production

MOTHER follows Marcus, who enters therapy to deal with his mother’s drug addiction, which tore their relationship apart. He struggles to reconcile love with pain as memories of his mother haunt him. Marcus’ story shows that drugs never affect only the user, but also fractures children, families, and more.

Team: Sembawang Secondary School InfoComm Club

School: Sembawang Secondary School

In a world where social media shows the “cool-side” of taking drugs. Net, a depressed student, whose life is going through many hardships, like failing an important exam that can impact his future down the road. While sulking in his room, Net starts scrolling through a postagram, he sees, a post of. Which shows an Influencer, A , having the time of his life, partying with people. And in that story, it shows him holding drugs and him saying that, “ drugs are the best way to live life.” Net thinks maybe drugs can make his own life happier. With nothing left to lose, he decides to buy the drugs, known as Dreamlace. Net begins to take in drugs. After weeks of drug abuse, Net starts to see the “real-side” of drug abuse and realises that drugs are not what he thinks they are. Rather than being a fun way to escape reality, it instead makes his life even more miserable, with him starting to fail every subject and not having any motivation to turn his life around, with him experiencing a near-death experience. This documentary highlights, on how not to believe everything you see online, and the reality of drug abuse.