One inducer of substance abuse that is commonly found among most adolescents is stress. Stress can be found in adolescents everyday activity. ... Even though substance abuse is not an effective stress reducer, some weary adolescents take this path anyway. ... The experts at Toronto University agree, and have classified substance abuse as a stress enhancer. ... Similar to stress, depression is a common occurrence in an adolescent's life (Reinherz, Feb.2000.). ...

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Sure, this might all seem fun for them while they're doing it but are they going to be laughing through an unwanted pregnancy, a car accident, or during the wait for results from an AIDS test? ... (Siegel, Welsh, Senna p. 538) Drug use by young minority-group members has been tied to factors such as racial prejudice, low self-esteem, poor socioeconomic status, and the stress of living in a harsh urban environment. ... Youths in inner-city areas where feelings of alienation run high often come in contact with drug users who teach them that rugs provide an answer to their feelings of inad...

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Marijuana is a drug that on a very regular basis will put you into a sleepy state, thus, when someone is stressed to the point they cannot sleep, instead of taking Nyquil, a costly alcohol-related product which can make users reliant, the stressed subject could smoke, or even ingest some marijuana with, more or less, the same results. ... In fact, according to animal testing, forty thousand times as much THC as you need to get high would have to be consumed to overdose. ... What actually shows up on the tests days later is a fat soluble metabolite that is a by product of the breakdown of THC. ...

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Unfortunately athletes may use drugs for therapeutic indications, recreatio9nal or social reasons, as muscular aids or to mask the presence of other drugs during drug testing. ... (Athletes and Drugs) Athletes may also turn to drugs to relieve stress generated by the conflicting demands of sports competition and ordinary life. ...

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