TEENAGERS AND SUBSTANCE USE: SOCIAL NETWORKS AND PEER INFLUENCE

This volume examines how teenagers' peers influence their substance use. This author maintains that this phenomenon it is based on the teenagers' own selection of peers and, in turn, the influence of those peers, but, in between, is the formation of social networks and the patterning of their peer ties. She feels that chain reaction in teenagers' substance use result from the selection of peers, the patterning of peer ties and peer influence.