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Explain why drug abuse is more common with teens whose family members abuse drugs.

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It's more common because they grew up around drug abuse so its only natural for them to do it
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Teens look to older family members as examples and to see a relative or sibling or parent abusing drugs they(the teen) think it's an okay thing to do or feel like maybe they have to
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