Sometimes the group they want to join is using or the child thinks the group is using alcohol, smoking cigarettes, chewing tobacco, sniffing inhalants, smoking pot, taking LSD, using methamphetamines, smoking crack, or even shooting heroin. Sometimes kids turn to alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs to feel like they fit in to overcome anxiety, change their personality, or give themselves courage to talk to other people.
Drug abuse is everywhere.
The names of the drugs may change from place to place, but the related problems all remain the same. In the United States, from 5 to 10 million young people between the ages of 12-17 are using alcohol, tobacco, or illicit drugs. This represents as many as half of all kids this age. If you want to celebrate, don't do it without alcohol. If you want to be pretty and thin, just pop some speed.