Drug Abuse & the Youth

To adults, teenagers appear to be rebels without a pause.
So can we blame teen’s brains for some of their behaviours? Teenage life is a difficult stage where the youth, out of curiosity, tends to test their limits to seek new sorts of experiences. The most common things they wish to experience is teen sex, consumption of drugs and alcohol. But before trying to understand why is drug abuse such an appealing source among the youth, it is important to know what is substance abuse itself. “Substance Abuse” , also commonly known as “Drug Abuse”, is a patterned use of a substance such as -drugs, in which the user consumes the substance in amounts or with methods neither approved nor supervised by medical professionals. It refers to the harmful use of psychoactive substances including alcohol and illicit drugs. People who are stressed are usually more receptive to drugs. The cause could also be genetic; if a pregnant lady is consuming a lot of drugs, her offspring would develop this habit and get addicted by birth. Externally, if some member in the family is taking drugs or is alcoholic, one might get influenced. The root cause of why it is more prevalent in teenagers is curiosity and media. Media has a major influence. Due to the change in school of thoughts and more liberty to express our ideas, media has showed us the in-depth details of crime and substance abuse. Many movies, shows and programmes portray young teenagers consuming drugs and the joy they are getting out of it. In addition,peer pressure also creates an imprint in the person’s mind and influences him/her to try it in any way. It is a strong factor as it is influencing the victim directly. In order to remain a member of the friend circle or group, the victim, unwillingly, starts consuming drugs and alcohol. Drugs have a major impact upon the consumer. People who take drugs face many difficulties physically as well as mentally. The drugs highly consumed are cocaine, marijuana and morphine. People