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/^t/Nowadays many young people have an easy access to drugs, as even in schools drug trafficking is proliferating. This is the direct cause of teenage drug addictions. Young people usually use soft drugs such as hashis or marijuana just out of curiosity or for pleasure. They think it makes them feel better and at ease and relieves the atmosphere at parties. Many take drugs simply for fear of being rejected from their peer group. Some of the young people take drugs because they have different kinds of emotional problems, usually at the puberty stage. They try to eliminate these problems from their lives by means of drugs. Still others have problems at school, which they find too difficult to deal with and taking drugs is the way of forgetting about them. In a vast majority of cases, however, taking drugs is not conditioned by any definite reasons, as far as teenagers are concerned.