September 29, 2010

The Price of Popularity: Drug and Alcohol Consumption

ScienceDaily for September 28, 2010 reported on drug and alcohol consumption of teenagers.

The study, which is to be published during the next year as part of a collective work, was conducted on more than 500 French- speaking students at three separate moments of their lives: at ages 10 to 11, 12 to 13 and 14 to15. It took into consideration the popularity of the child and their friends and tracked their consumption of alcohol, marijuana and hard drugs.