The ________ explains the onset and escalation of adolescents’ drug use by claiming that a bleak economic environment for certain disenfranchised groups has created a generation of young adults in urban inner cities who regularly experience doubt, hopelessness, and uncertainty

A) social disorganization theory
B) social development model
C) stress relief theory
D) addictive personality theory


Answer: A

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