drug abuse

INTRODUCTION
Drug abuse is becoming a main problem in many countries. Billions of money is spent in preventing drug use, fighting drug-related crime and treating addicts. Drug abuse causes many problems for both communities and countries. The medical and psychological are one of the very obvious effect .The person who involves in drug abuse cannot function as normal members of society. They always neglect or abuse their families, and eventually require expensive treatment. As one of the G10 country United States of America (U.S.A) dealing on drug abuse as a main problem among teenagers.

Background
The United States of America (U.S.A) is a federal constitutional republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The United States is the world's third largest nation by total, are ranking behind Russia and Canada. As stated by U.S. Census Bureau,(2012) the country's population now to be 314,705,000 including 21,469,780 teenagers between the ages of fifteen and nineteen.
According to Warner (2008) U.S has the highest usages of drugs compare to other countries. The World Health organization’s surveys of legal and illegal drug, Americans is on the highest level in the use of marijuana and cocaine. Statics shows that Americans were using cocaine four time more in their life time than other any countries. As stated by Chan (2012) one in 10 U.S. adults was at one time in recovery from alcohol or drug problems. Another new report, by the Partnership at Drugfree.org and the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, shows that there are 23.5 million adults in the U.S. who have at one time had issues with their alcohol consumption or drug use. This shows that U.S is dealing a big problem with drug addiction.

Besides that, teenagers in America also have a high percentage number of drug abuse. A new survey by the National Centre on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University in New York City found that 90 per cent of high school students in the U.S. are aware of fellow students using illicit drugs, like alcohol and tobacco, during school hours.
In a study, conducted from April 18 to May 17, the teens noted that around 17 percent of students were abusing drugs during school hours. This amounts to approximately 2.8 million who engaged in illicit drug use.
According to reports, teen drug abuse has been on the rise over the past decade. A report released Wednesday by The Partnership at Drugfree.org showed that “heavy” marijuana use among teenagers is up 80 per cent, with one in 10 teens reporting that they use the drug at least 20 times a month.

Objective
The objective of this study is to investigate why the rate of drug abuse among teenagers in the United States of America is high.
Scope
The scope of this study will be involving the teenagers in the United States of America. 10 respondents will be selected among the teenagers to answer few questionnaires for get a feedback about drug abuse among teenagers in USA.
There were about 1.9 million current cocaine users of which approximately 39500 were crack users in 2008. Most of the highest rates of current users are between 18-25 years old it is reported that most of the cocaine users are of male gander compared to the females. There was are significance report in the decline of teen attitude in drugs use in the 2009 Monitoring the future survey .The report shows a decline in 30 days relevant of powdered cocaine use among 8th, 10th and 12th grades from its highest use in the late 1990s, there was also a significant decline in the past month among 10th and 12th grades from years 2008 to 2009.

Methodology Quantitative approach will be used in collecting data for this research. Questionnaires will be allocated to 10 respondents. Different answers and perspectives from the respondents regarding the questionnaires will strengthen the result of this research. Respondents between the ages of 13 to 19 years old will be selected to answer the questionnaires. A few questions will be given to the respondents to answer based on the topic discussed. The questionnaires prepared will be allocated through the usage of Google Spreadsheet. Feedbacks from the respondents regarding why drug abuse among teenagers is high in the United States of America, will be tabulated and changed into percentage and displayed as graph, statistics, or chart for better comparison and understanding.
Limitation
The limitation in completing this study is time. The time given is limited and this research is time consuming especially in getting proper information from the intent and other sources. There are times where there is a breakdown of internet connection which halted the progress in finding information. The number of respondents involved in this study is also small, which is only 10 respondents and this will result in a less accurate data since the population of teenagers in the United States of America reaches millions and 10 respondents won’t be able to represent this huge number of populations.

Conclusion U.S.A stands as an industrialized nation which is well known by the whole world but there is still issues running over inside and outside the country. This study is to know why does this well developed country has the highest drug abuse cases in the world and what are the causes involved. Hence, from this study, it is possible to see why US as a top industrialized nation has a serious drug abuse problem. In the next chapter, Literature Review the study will continue to investigate the definition, causes, effects, step taken to overcome ad pass study about drug abuse.