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gateway drugs

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gateway drugs,
minor substances of abuse, such as inhalants, used in general by children or young people before they experiment with marijuana or hard drugs; entry drugs.


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This counselor admits he sees an alarming trend of teens using more drugs today than ever before, and some are skipping the gateway drugs, such as marijuana, and heading straight for methamphetamines and ecstasy.
A high-risk child, for example, might be one who goes to a poor school, hangs out with a bad crowd, is aggressive, and does gateway drugs such as smoking or alcohol.
But the advice he continued to get from medical professionals, police, and just plain street people was that if he were ever going to deal with the drug problem, he must first deal with the gateway drugs of tobacco and alcohol.
 
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