Showing hard drug use or how to make drugs
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What triggers it
Non-educational content showing injecting, snorting or taking hard drugs, abusing inhalants, explaining how to make drugs or poisons, or showing how to use steroids recreationally.
What YouTube says
“Non-educational content that shows the injection of intravenous drugs like heroin, snorting powdered drugs like cocaine, or taking hallucinogens like acid.”
We last checked this against YouTube's page on .
How to fix it
Cut the use and production footage; keep the content educational or recovery-focused.
Good to know
Look for needles, powder lines, pills being crushed, drug labs, inhalant use and steroid injection tutorials. Harm-reduction, recovery and news content with educational framing may be allowed.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's shown and what's said. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: looked at for this rule
- Speech: looked at for this rule
- On-screen text: not for this rule
- Caption: not for this rule
- Hashtags: not for this rule
Related YouTube rules
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