What role does peer pressure play in alcohol use among teens?

Answer 1

Many children are forced to use drugs, alchohol, and cigarettes by friends that threaten them with friendship and popularity for example "if you dont try it ill tell everyone your a wuss" ... Or worse

Answer 2

Cocaine plays a major role amongst youths for peer presure. Cocaine is a very affective ILLEAGAL drug that you sniff through a straw into your nose and it makes you go crazy. Now cocaine is a very expensive drug so most children don't use it or have it. They usually have marijuana or ciggarettes and stuff. People can still snort salt from a straw and still get high. Peers and tell their friend "comon nothin will happen, you'll be ok. Your mom won't find out" but then when you come home high then the questions poor out. NO COCAINE

Answer 3

Kids hang out with the kids that break rules. The kids that break rules do drugs. A new kid comes to the school and is instantly pulled in by the bad kids. The kids tell the new kid that doing drugs is awesome and it will make them feel good and they'll love it. They do drugs. That's the chain of it. almost every kid is peer pressured into doing something throughout their lifetime.

Answer 4

a lot of teens drink alcohol and even if they don't say drink this if they just offer it people can feel pressured because everyone around them is doing it

Answer 5

Peer pressure definitely does. No one wakes up one day and thinks, "hey, I think I'm going to try drugs today." Peer pressure definitely has a role in drugs.

Answer 6

Peer pressure makes us do things or even become people we aren't!