Drugs addiction stays with you for life, and bad things happen because of it.

That was the message Peter DiGuilio gave at his anti-drug speech Thursday evening, before Wareham High School’s Meet the Coaches night.

DiGuilio is a health instructor in the Revere public school system. He focused on several drugs, starting with marijuana. He said it was often mixed with cocaine and other highly addictive drugs.

“This isn’t your grandmother’s marijuana,” DiGuilio said.

DiGuilio also told the students bad things happen to women, when they drink. DiGuilio used the words "brain damaged" for "drunk," and "in a coma" for "passed out."

"If a high school girl gets brain damaged at the prom – she was so brain damaged that she went into a coma – and then she got dragged into a back room of a Cape Cod cottage, and there were four boys there that wanted to take advantage of her – would the fact that her liver was still working make any difference to what was going to happen to her?" DiGuilio said. "Was the fact that her liver was still working stop her from getting raped in that Cape Cod cottage?"

DiGuilio also touched on a drug that hits very close to home for many on the South Coast: heroin. DiGuilio said heroin is now the “drug of choice” – a sea change from when he was younger.

“Heroin had a stigma to it when I was at [Boston College] 40 years ago,” DiGuilio said. “No kids ever did heroin, because you had to shoot it with a needle, and that had a stigma to it.”

DiGuilio told the students heroin can be laced with fentanyl, “which is 500 times stronger than morphine.”

“Now, they’re mixing heroin with it, and kids are dying from it,” DiGiulio said.