Peer pressure and drug use: exploding the myth

"Peer pressure" and "everyone is doing it" have been used as excuses for some drug-taking behavior for too long. We must look harder into reasons for drug use and neither accept these concepts nor teach our young people that this is what is really happening.

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Veröffentlicht in:	Adolescence 1985-01, Vol.20 (80), p.949-958
Hauptverfasser:	SHEPPARD, M. A, WRIGHT, D, GOODSTADT, M. S
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Addictive behaviors Adolescent Adolescent Behavior Adult and adolescent clinical studies Biological and medical sciences Cannabis Family Humans Indexing in process Medical sciences Peer Group Persuasive Communication Pharmaceutical Preparations - administration & dosage Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Street Drugs - administration & dosage
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Zusammenfassung:	"Peer pressure" and "everyone is doing it" have been used as excuses for some drug-taking behavior for too long. We must look harder into reasons for drug use and neither accept these concepts nor teach our young people that this is what is really happening.
ISSN:	0001-8449