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Percy, Andrew – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
This article presents a re-conceptualization of moderate adolescent drug use. It is argued that experimentation with alcohol and other drugs during the teenage years may play an important role in the development of regulatory competency in relation to drug consumption in adulthood. When such regulatory skills fail to emerge in young people, during…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Substance Abuse, Self Control, Adolescents

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