Expressions | Youth addicted to Lean
Lean, also known by the popular street name “purple drank,” is an illicit substance made with codeine, containing cough syrup, soda, hard candy, occasionally alcohol, and the antihistamine promethazine.
An individual can develop a lean addiction in a relatively short period due to how opioids impact the brain’s reward response system.
Peer pressure is one of the major contributing factors to youth substance abuse.
Adolescents are either forced, persuaded or pressured to try drugs or alcohol by their peers and, in many instances, deceived into believing that using is either not harmful or that there will be no repercussions in using.
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