Kids are not cruel by nature, but they are immature. They taunt, tease and reject. Those who have lost their orientation to adults and look to the peer group instead find themselves having to shut down emotionally for sheer protection. As we have seen with children abused at home, emotional shutting down—what in a bookfn2 I co-wrote with Dr. Gordon Neufeld we call “the dangerous flight from feeling”—greatly increases the motivation to use drugs.