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Peers Once children become teenagers they develop independence and begin experimenting in drugs, sex, and alcohol. Society and most parents instill upon their children that underage drinking, sex and drug use are wrong but peer influence can easily sabotage many teenagers. As stated in Prevention Alert (1999), Peer influence is most strongly felt in episodes of heavy drinking. As teenagers spend more time with friends outside of the school environment they are put in situations where their peers are consuming alcohol. Teenagers will often sleep over at each others houses and their respective parents will have no control over the situation or know what their child is doing. Often teenagers will claim they are spending the night at a trusted friend's house while they are really staying at a party. Another study, conducted by Mayer, Foster, Murray, & Wagenaar, 1998, at the University of Minnesota, found that teenage drinkers...

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