Substance abuse to me is something that basically starts off as something that someone wants to experiment with. They with experiment with drugs because of peer pressure or because they are trying to repress a longing for something. According to May, "[f]or generations, psychologists thought that virtually all self-defeating behavior was caused by repression" (1998, p.3). Everyone wants to repress something or someone in their life that has hurt them. No one wants to keep allowing themselves to get hurt, so they suppress it. I think that this will lead to substance abuse because they turn to drugs and alcohol to take their mind off of the person that has hurt them so that they do not have to fell that kind of hurt again. Some people say that
