Adolescents are influenced by parents, other adults, and by television. Licensed restaurants assume you will want something from the bar before dinner, as do friends who invite you to their homes. Things in the body inherited from one's parents.
Children of alcoholics are somewhat of a higher risk.
Lacking sufficient self-confidence, adolescents may give in to the social pressures of trying drugs. Drugs may be used to gain acceptance, feel like part of the crowd, to give the appearance of acting like a grown up, to feel like they belong, to loosen inhibitions and to make them feel relaxed, witty and popular. Young people as well as adults often use chemicals to try to increase their self-confidence, especially in social situations. Drugs seem to make the individual more confident, more important, and less vulnerable. Drugs have the ability to distort one's perception of the outside world.