Good Advice –
Nov 05, 2018 – Today I want to focus on the environmental domain, which not only contributes to addiction, but also maintains it. Environmentalists and social scientists believe that external factors and forces dictate our behavior. Addiction, according to supporters of this camp, is primarily a result of external, and not internal, factors. For example, we know that alcohol and drug use increases during adolescence (ages eighteen to twenty-four), because this is a time when young people socialize with each other and are susceptible to “peer-pressure.”
