My source is a study about the effects of drugs and alcohol on kids with good backgrounds before they started using, and kids with bad backgrounds before they started using.
Half of the kids were "bad kids" and the other half were the kids considered to be "good kids" before they started using. Both of these groups ended up having health problems in their thirties.
From the results it was clear that drugs and alcohol would make a good kid go down the wrong path. The "good kids" who use end up looking like the nonusers who are bad kids. By age thirty-two these kids were 3.6% more likely to become dependent on drugs and alcohol.
A third of the girls from the "good" group got pregnant before the age of twenty-one, which is the same number as the bad kids who were nonusers. Two thirds of the "bad girls" who were users got pregnant before the age of twenty-one.
This study shows that no matter what background or group you fit into, drugs and alcohol will always have an effect on your life and you may not be able to change it before it is too late.
"Drugs Take Toll on Good and Bad Kids Alike." USA Today Feb. 2010: 6. Print.
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