Dinges and Oetting (1993) found that 90 percent of drug users have
friends who are using drugs. It is interesting that this figure shows that
about half of these drug users also have friends who would try to stop
them from using drugs. This may occur because many adolescents are
members of more than one peer cluster; they have some friends who
use drugs but others who would try to stop them from using. As an
example, one young woman the authors interviewed said, "If my
boyfriend