Essay On Drug Abuse Among Teenagers

Two actions could helps us achieve this: First, there should be better educations and to adults and new generations warning them about the effects marijuana has on their health. Most people that smoke marijuana do not have enough knowledge or are not educated, and therefore do not know about the bad effects marijuana has on their health. Education is very important; teenagers are at a danger growing up. Hanging out with friends that might have bad influence on them. The only way to keep them away from the danger of marijuana is to teach them and explain what marijuana could do to their health.

Unfortunately, this experimentation can prompt substance misuse and addiction. Measurements demonstrate that drug abuse is a developing issue among teenagers. Drugs should be forbidden all over the world because for teenagers it destroys their social life. On the other hand, many teenagers believe that it should remain because it helps them to cover from painful memories in their past. Despite the many causes and effects of drug abuse, two of the main causes are Lack of parent to child communication and low self-esteem and two of the main effects are Health problems and Behavioral problems.

To begin with, young children turning to drugs in order to satisfy their growing pain. After the terrible happening of Residential Schools, the neverending history of suffering can cause a child to reciprocate their feelings by abusing substances. In Tracey Lindberg’s Birdie, it’s stated briefly of the ways in which Bernice relies on alcohol on many lonely nights. “She knows that she shouldn’t have gone to the motel with him. There are a lot of shouldn’t haves.

Teenagers are very different in personalities some teenagers like to get in trouble and some don’t think of what will happen next in their everyday lifestyle. Their was this book that i have read and it was about teenagers doing drugs and drinking and they were making careless mistakes and some of the teenagers will not do any of those things because they think of the consequences. Also some teenager will do a lot of things like not driving right making wrong turns and other things but they get over it and pick up from the beginning. Some people believe that teenagers are careless and don’t think about their consequences. Teenagers are careless in public and in school because they are in front of other people and try to do bad things and show off.

The depression and substances abuse for teenagers currently become issues that lead to suicide cases among teenagers. They cannot adapt with that situation and tends to solve it by attempting suicide. Teenagers commit suicide because they cannot cope with the stress related matter such as depression and substances abuse, but counseling session, reading and watching films, and also highest attention from parents can reduce the number of suicide from increasing day by day. The first causes that cause teenagers to attempt suicide are depression. Depression is one part of a large role in suicide.

In the story “Go Ask Alice” what really stood out to me was the drug use in the teenagers. The first time someone uses a drug of abuse, he or she experience unnaturally intense feelings of pleasure. We live in a drug taking society. The most harm and the greatest risk to young people comes from using legal drugs (cigarettes, alcohol, and medicines). Young people are curious in the sense of what is it that everyone like about this drug, so soon they start to experiment, and that is when the illegal drugs take place.

Drug tests in schools can prevent students from doing drugs because they are afraid of getting caught by teachers and parents. Kids are afraid of being caught doing bad things such as drugs. “He just called your name so you get so scared you 're in trouble," said Brooke Flickinger. "So you start freaking out, it 's something else”,... (Flickinger 1).Kids are afraid of getting caught because they know that they will get in trouble. If kids realize that the school is taking surprize drug tests it

The use of alcohol is very controversial to all people especially to adults and young adults. Some adults feel that young adults are going to get alcohol poisoned or get abused by others. Young adults feel that lowering the legal age for drinking would be beneficial to their life and health. The legal age should stay the same because people’s health will be affected, crime and violence will increase, and people’s social lives will be affected. Many organs can be damaged by alcohol and this can lead many problem in the future.

Here are some risk in teen drug use rejection from society, failure in life like school and other aspects, People thinking that drugs are ok every now and then is a very common risk factor. The drugs can make people’s driving very seriously dangerous, Teens also think that drugs can build an independence and it can be also because of family using them or because of abusive parents can make them use

There many causes of substance abuse amongst teens in SA but the main ones are Depression and peer pressure. Teens experience and temporary high or wooziness during the intake of the drug. The long term effects on substance abuse are muscle fatigue, lung failure, kidney failure and brain damage and potentially cancer. Substance abuse plays a big role in death due to drunk driving and death due illusions created