Teenagers and Drug Abuse
Various theorists have tried to explain the reasons teenagers engage in drug and substance abuse while others don’t. Firstly, B. F Skinner (1982) had in place the theory that in some instances people are not responsible for their own personal behaviour if they don’t have a hand in creating and initiating it, but normally pick the behavior from elsewhere (Skinner, 2001). One may infer this to mean that in most cases, the environment that a teenager is always around may be a major determinant of whether or not he or she will be a drug abuser or ...
