It may help you to know that many parents share your fears. But don't let fear hold you back. Now is the time to do something. Children are being exposed to drugs at younger ages. Some parents want to believe that their young children have never tried drugs and won't ever develop a drug problem.
Children care a lot about what other children think.
When children try to make other children do something they shouldn't, like use alcohol, tobacco, or other drug's, it's called negative peer pressure. Peer pressure can be positive too. Almost half of 6th graders report peer pressure to drink alcohol. A recent study indicated that half of 11th and12th graders said it would be easy to buy drugs at school. 80 percent of all 12th graders say it would be easy to get marijuana.