An Excerpt from "Clean."

I picked up a book recently, "Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending Americas Greatest Tragedy" by David Sheff. Here's a tidbit from that book (which is really good so far)! 

"In the Drugfree survey, parents said that they believed their children used drugs to feel good and to fit in with their peers. In the survey, 60 percent of of kids did admit that they used because drinking (the survey focused on alcohol) was fun. But teenagers' primary motivations to use were to "forget their troubles" (32 percent) deal with problems at home (24 percent); and cope with school pressure (20 percent).
Their parents were clueless. In the study, only 7 percent of parents connected drug use with teenagers' stress. Most parents assumed that the number one reason kids used drugs was that "drugs are fun." When kids listed their reasons for using, however, "drugs are fun" came in fifteenth on a list of 16."