Peer Influence: Facebook, Twitter, Alcohol and Drugs

ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–October 15, 2012.  When it comes to alcohol and drug use, peers can be just as influential online as they are in person, researchers at the University of Michigan School of Public Health say.

To gather what they believe to be the most comprehensive survey to date to look at how peers influence one another on Internet social platforms with regard to alcohol and marijuana use, the U-M researchers polled an online sample of…