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Drug and alcohol abuse is a serious problem among many young people. Most drug and alcohol abuse happens on the weekend at a party or at a friend's house. Young people want to be popular and fit in, and if fitting in means drinking or using drugs, they are going to do it. After a few parties, and a few nights out at a friend's house,young people start to get addicted to drugs and alcohol and their life begins to fall
apart.
Being popular is a goal that all teenagers want to achieve. There's nothing like sitting at the popular lunch table or knowing all of the football and basketball players. Being popular also means that you have to do all of the things that the popular kids do, like drinking or smoking cigarettes once in a while. Smoking cigarettes and drinking just a little leads to worse things like drinking more, and trying drugs.
The parties that last a whole weekend, because their parents are out of town, are where most of the drinking and drug abuse is going on.......

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