Parents often worry about their children using alcohol and especially about drugs.
Drugs frighten parents because they know less about them than their children and because stories in newspapers and on TV highlight the crime, ill-health and deaths caused by drugs. It is common for young people to use alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. They may do it for fun, because they are curious, or to be like their friends. Some are experimenting with the feeling of intoxication. Some look on experimenting with drugs as just a part of growing up .