Giving in to pressure can turn you into someone you're not - and don't want to be. And these things don't just happen to other people. A recent survey of teens showed that in the previous month more than one third had had five or more drinks. About one-quarter had smoked pot and almost forty percent had had sex. Now in her twenties, Elena is raising her son with the help of her parents.
Girls get pregnant.
Feelings can't tell the difference between right and wrong. So was my family, only sadder for the hurt I'd caused. They went broke paying back money I stole and paying for my treatment. Then I had to return to school with this reputation. If you've got a problem with drinking or with drugs, you've got not to hide.