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Adolescent's Alcohol Abuse

R500 has gone missing from Mrs Johnson's purse. Surely it couldn't have been her lovely 14-year-old daughter? She was the only one home at the time. What could she want the money for? Mrs Johnson's about to find out.
Parents are seldom drug experts. But they should be. Almost three-quarters of the clients of the Cape Town Drug Counselling Centre started taking drugs in their teens. Many parents might have a drug addict in their home. In fact, they may be funding their kids' addiction.
Why teens take drugs
Drugs make you feel on top of the world. Grownup. In with the crowd. Cool. Hung over. Special. Underperforming. Confident. Like a rebel. In short, it does different things for different people. But seen from a teen's perspective, drugs can appear to have more advantages than disadvantages. Otherwise kids wouldn't be doing drugs.
"Despite what most people think, most kids don't start off taking drugs, because they want to get high – they are motivated by a variety of......


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