: About Me

Teen drug abuse arises out of a marriage of circumstances including genetic predispositions toward addiction, emotional susceptibility, peer pressure and accessibliity to drugs. While parental roles and responses (tolerance or intolerance) are obviously deeply relevant, peer relations seem to be the largest controllable factor in determining the ratios between teen abstinence and teen abuse in relation to drugs. Though this would seem to reduce the role parents are capable of playing in protecting their children from involvement with cycles of abuse, the reverse is actually true. Because f...