This text describes the communicative and relational features of adolescent drug use. It is written for people who care about adolescents and are concerned about their drug use problems: researchers, practitioners, parents and teachers, among others. It informs the reader about how drugs, adolescents and the social world (a world of peer pressure, emerging and fragile self-identity, need for approval, desire to be accepted, cliques, identification with peers and peer norms) affect an adolescent's relationship with his/her parents.

This text describes the communicative and relational features of adolescent drug use. It is written for people who care about adolescents and are concerned about their drug use problems: researchers, practitioners, parents and teachers, among others. It informs the reader about how drugs, adolescents and the social world (a world of peer pressure, emerging and fragile self-identity, need for approval, desire to be accepted, cliques, identification with peers and peer norms) affect an adolescent's relationship with his/her parents.