“Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.” DreamOpportunityLostCausesSinSeaBlessingDrugPressurePeersPornographyCrushedShatteredImmoralityPeer PressureReefsLost OpportunityShattered Dreams Author:Thomas S. Monson
“The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.” KidsTodaySchoolParentViolenceTaughtDrugPressureThreatMotivePeersVaryCurriculumPeer PressureLurkingSchool Curriculum Author:Ernest Istook
“I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.” CultureRoomsAcceptingInvolvedDrugAcceptedLockedPeersDrug Culture Author:Nancy Sinatra
“My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.” WellsMeanUseFoundLiteratureForceLonelinessDrugAlcoholCheatingCheatPeersCompanionshipDrugs And AlcoholDrinking AlcoholIntoxicationSociable Author:Franz Kafka
“If you're worried about a kid and drug use, the safest, best thing to do is individual counseling or family therapy, none of which will expose kids to more deviant or problematic peers and both of which are proven to be effective and at the very least, they won't hurt.” IfsUseKidsIndividualHurtDrugWorriedBest ThingsTherapyThings To DoPeersProvenCounselingDrug UseDeviants Author:Maia Szalavitz