Question:
- Who or what pressures youth to use substances?
"I think like even yourself pressures you because youth thrive to be like popular and stuff and like everybody wants to be with the cool kids and if you see them doing it and you want to be like them so you try to do it too" ~ Female, 17 years old
Question:
- What would you guys want parents to know?
"Don't be afraid to ask" ~ Male
"I feel like parents like it is hard to say no for a lot of kids and parents don't know that; they just say don't do it, just say no. But it is so hard for us to and I want them to understand that is not so easy" ~ Female, 14 years old
"Don't freak out on us, that is the worst thing to do" ~ Male
"I think parents need to be better informed, I know with my parents I try to tell them about what goes on in the school and they don't believe it. I guess they kind of refuse to accept it" ~ Female
"Oh no! Health is what is does to you and friends are how to do them" ~ Male, 18 years old
"Well, most of the time when parents ask you, you don't know whether to be honest with them cause you don't know how they are going to take it, right. Cause they could just be asking and then you tell the truth and then they freak out on you" ~ Male
"I think your friends pressure you more than anybody else" ~ Female, 14 years old
"Oh yah, if they (parents) are high strung and freaking out you're not getting annnny information" ~ Male
