Oetting and Beauvais identify peer clusters as a crucial element in the cause and treatment of substance abuse but offer some appropriate cautions against overinterpreting this result. In other words, the question may be why some children cannot find constructive involvements and instead join destructive groups. There is no better antidote for drug abuse than adolescents' beliefs that the world is a positive place, that they can accomplish what they want, and that they can gain satisfaction from life. We are all the victims for this mistake. Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
Drug research is muddied by sundry dependence concepts.
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