Friends and siblings are two of the biggest influences on whether young people take drugs more frequently or start at a younger age, according to the Department of Health's survey Drug use, smoking and drinking among young people in England in 2001. This looked at 11 to 15-year-olds.
Sixty per cent of pupils who claimed more than half of their friends used drugs had used drugs themselves in the previous month, compared with only four per cent of pupils who had taken drugs but whose friends did not use. Nineteen per cent of those with "a few" drug-using friends had themselves used drugs.
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