What is the youngest age when kids start using drugs and alcohl?

Answer 1

Definition of drugs can be anything from legal prescription medically prescribed to illegal drugs. So drugs are used as medications on babies from birth - that's when drug use starts

Rephrase your question to ask about illegal drugs for another answer

Answer 2

Well it really depends on the person and maybe the upbringing( if he or she hangs around other people that do them then there more likely to try it). however i would say (through personal experience) if they actually start "trying" them then it's likely in high school (especially if they have friends that do or "try" them for recreational). this is just my opinion...hope this helps.

Answer 3

The question is not clear.

Teenagers are exposed to all the same drugs that adults use, but for a variety of reasons they are at a far greater risk to try, abuse and become addicted to them. Teens are far more likely to believe many drugs are safe, more likely to succumb to peer pressure or stress, and less likely to note their own addiction behaviors developing.

President Bush's first radio address of March 2008 directly addressed the issue, releasing a 79 page report entitled the National Drug Control Strategy that, if the statistics are to believed, indicates that during the President's years in office the abuse of every imaginable drug by teens, from cigarettes to heroin to LSD, has dropped significantly: 24% since 2001, across the board.

Surely any number of parents and addiction specialists would disagree.

In this piece we'll look at some telltale causes, signs and symptoms of teen drug abuse and addiction, the many dangers, as well as some specific drugs that teens are using and abusing, such as prescription drugs and club drugs.

Answer 4

I started at 13 im 28 now and stil have issues seious ones the sooner u can get a kid off drugs the better the chance they have i wish my mom woulda done something when i was in my early teens taking acid, coke. drinking, extacy, i was bad into the cold medicine fastforward 2 age 20 i was addicted 2 heroin BAD then got into crack BAD now im clean but have been "trapped" on methadone mait 4 over 5 yrs and cant get off cuz of physical withdrawl

Answer 5

It has varied , from age 2 (illegally encouraged marijuana inhalation by a family member, which then becomes habitual, for instance) all the way to first time experimentation with drugs in one's 80s.

However, the average age of illegal drug use/experimentation is somewhere in the teens, although a majority of teens do not use any illegal drugs.

Answer 6

never do drugs or alcohol cause they are really bad for you. you could die if you are drinking and driving, you could get into a accident.

Answer 7

There is no actual age or time period when kids start using drugs, it is stictly up to the kid if they want to start.

Answer 8

More then 1.4 million people between the ages of 12-17 use drugs!