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Reality Check Facts About Alcohol Too Much, Too Soon, Too Risky Meet Your Expectations Peer Pressure The Right To Resist Real Life
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Speech bubble: Who needs you as a friend anyway? Speech bubble two: You're such a baby! Speech bubble three: It won't hurt you!

Have your friends ever used these lines on you? Did you give in, even though you didn’t want to?

These are a few of the goodies in the Peer Pressure Bag-of-Tricks. The tricks include put-downs, rejections, and reasoning, as well as pressure without words, or unspoken pressure.

 
 

Learn to spot the tricks. Being aware of the pressure is the first step to resisting it.

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