By LeAnne Bagnall
Teens are much closer to accessing drugs than parents think, or may want to believe. Most of the images we see that teach children to stay away from drugs—the DARE program’s “say no to drugs” campaigns, for example—are such common knowledge nowadays that we glaze over the message when commercials appear during our television programs.
Parents tend to imagine drug abuse involving heavy substances such as cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamine. Movies and television give the impression that children obtain drugs from shady dealers in dark corners or from peer pressure from bad kids in bad neighborhoods. The modern trend in drug abuse, however, depicts a much different picture.
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