Adolescence is the time when both young men and women seek to fit in their community, find their place in it, and be accepted. Already not a child, but still not a grown-up, a teenager looks to be treated as an adult. Without yet realizing that adulthood is about responsibility, decision making, and self-sustainability, teenagers often stick to what they believe are exterior attributions of being a grown-up: drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, and drug use. Doing this, they get into illusions, believing they are mature. Unless something bad happens to them (in the best case scenario is arrest, and in the worst case, drug addiction and rehab) they believe “bad things” happen only to other people. So, their survival instinct malfunctions, and as a result, they throw themselves into dangerous experiments with substances. Also, those teenagers who grow up with parents abusing alcohol or drugs often follow their examples: either subconsciously, or naively considering that if parents do it, then they also should (Promises.com).