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Risk Factors for Recent Increased Drug Use in Adolescents.
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Risk Factors for Recent Increased Drug Use in Adolescents Author: Casey Perry SUPA Sociology student at Fairport High School Abstract: I went through the process of obtaining data from six professional journal articles. I have concluded that there are two dominant variables, family and peer relationships, along with multiple other variables; which may heighten the risk for drug use in adolescents between the ages of fourteen and seventeen over the past ten years. The other supporting variables are age, gender, ethnicity and victimization. But the two most important variables in determining drug use in teens are their peer and family relationships. Introduction: Drug use has become more popular among adolescents between the ages of fourteen to seventeen years of age over the past ten years. "A National Institute Drug Abuse review of the last ten years of research on drug abuse shows that adolescent drug abuse rose sharply between 1992 and 1996" (Alcoholism...
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