I don’t use drugs nor alcohol, but I just turned 18 and I noticed that a lot of people younger than me (high school age so 14-17 even) use alcohol and sometimes drugs from siblings, older friends, etc.
Did you do that when you were younger than me? I don’t plan on doing so anyway.
Started alcohol age 15-16 and pretty quick pretty much, at first only on weekends.
Yada yada yada now I’m 39 and quit alcohol some months ago because I realised I’m an alcoholic who crashed on beer and vodka. Not recommendable.
And I still smoke weed every day.
And if you’re asking why; it’s all depression, for all of us.