When these athletes talk to the kids in the classrooms it helps inspire the kids to strive towards their goals and dreams. ... Allen Iverson, the Philadelphia guard, has had some bad influences around him. ... It not only helps keep the kids away from drugs, but it also helps the kids to learn to lead a productive life. ... This program is giving kids a place to go instead of hanging around the streets where most of the kids are faced with drugs. ... Athletes Against Drugs helps to mold these kids behaviors at a young age. ...

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Adults, teenagers, and even little kids are all being exposed to drugs every day. ... Diller uses a patient of his as an example a kid named Bobby. ... As Gordon begins to talk about the influences from family she makes a point to talk about how children will be more easily influenced to act in the same ways of there frequent environments, such as families, peers and friends. ... "(Gordon) The part of Gordon's essay that talks about peer influences hits on the subject of how easily influenced adolescents are by their friends. ... I asserted from Fumentos article that kids need to be ...

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Even when my mother took us kids out to eat we had to be careful. ... Steve did not believe her so he started to ask us kids and got the same answer. ... We kids then turned to my grandmother for help. ... That's when we kids started to come up with ways to make money to help out. ... Steve was driving into town one day when he was pulled over and arrested for driving under the influence. ...

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I choose to discuss the relationship between adolescent substance abuse, and parental influence. ... So in the long run misguided adolescents are just digging their hole deeper into the ground, and without proper influence or guidance, an adolescent can continue down this road. ... The skinny kid never gets picked for the football team and the fat kid can't find a date to the dance. ... When looking for guidance at this time, it might not matter to a kid if there parents were abusing substances, because they would have just seen what there parents were doing and thought it was cool, an...

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(www.drugfreeamerica.org) With all this in mind, and all the education programs such as dare, and all the research and information available, everyday a new kid begins using drugs for the first time. ... Peer networks may be the most significant influence on long-term substance abuse. ... So, what are parents, communities, schools, children, etc. doing right to keep kids from ever beginning to use drugs? ... Despite the fact that drugs, alcohol and tobacco are available everywhere, some kids dont get involved. ...

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Adolescents are influenced by these factors and by adult role models and environmental messages related to substances. ... Substance use for most teenagers is not an issue of psychopathology but of the influence on normal functioning. ...

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For instance a kid with blue collar parents who go to church every weekend could hate his/her parents views so much that it drives them to get in trouble or do drugs. ... Now the opposite of kid's like these are the ones that turn out just like their parents. ... When some one is under the influence of weed, it temporarily puts their problems on the back burner so to say. ... Almost all kids cant stand school, and are thinking about things they actually care about .this isn't anything new. ...

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Society has a huge part in influencing teens. ... My secondary source said that ways to prevent your kids from becoming drug users is to enrol them in extra-curricular activities and sports, since these types of teens are less likely to experiment with drugs (Riera 168). ... My secondary source found that one problem with violence is the influence form music lyrics. ...

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" Sponsors are great because they are able to have a better social influence on the new members because they have more than likely once been where those members are right now. ... Bill, like all kids experiment with alcohol with his friends when he was a teenager. ... He knew he didn't want to live like this anymore and he wanted to do right by his kids. He didn't want his kids to grow up the way that he grew up. ...

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This never works, because alcohol and drugs come with many problems of their own, and can often make people even angrier- (PBS Kids). ... Many crimes are committed while under the influence of drugs. ... He was under the influence and because of this his anger took over him. ... La Guma uses Michael's intoxicated character to show that no one is in there right mind when under the influence. ... Drugs influenced Michael to make an irreversible mistake that changed him as a person forever. ...

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Psychoactive drugs influence or alter the working of the mind. ... Once under the influence of a drug, one may not be held responsible for he may not know what $BCT (J right and what $BCT (J wrong. ... For a while drugs were popular among kids, but now it has become worse than ever before. ...

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Anslinger at one point "managed to get Congress to swallow that 50% of all violent crimes in America were committed by individuals under the influence of Marijuana" (www.theatlantic.com). ... He started to say that it is a great thing for the schools to be teaching the kids about marijuana since it is a very deadly drug. ...

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