Family
Family History * Parents are the main and first influencer in most of our life. Most of the things we learnt are from home. Hence, we will easily influence by their attitudes, routines, and even needs. If our parents have drug addiction or are drug dependant, we as their children are likely to have the addiction too. Drugs addiction can be passed from one generation to another.
Lack of Parental Supervision / Communication * Love, supervision, teaching and communication are very important when a child is growing. Childs that are lack of parental supervision will easily choose the wrong way on their way of growing. Some of them would want to take drugs because they are influence by their friends. Some of them feel depressed or unhappy so have the thought of taking drugs will reduce their unhappiness. Some of them would want to use this act (taking drugs) to attract their parent’s attention. Hence, parent’s supervision and communication is important in avoiding their child to take the wrong path.
Family Conflict * Every family has their own conflicts. For example: divorce, quarrel, misunderstanding, lack of understanding, lack of love, and lack of concern. All these conflicts can lead to every members of the family to feel unhappy and depress when staying at home. A family is supposed to be happy, peaceful and supportive. When we could not find any of these at our home, we may likely find these at somewhere else and drug may be one of the choices if we do not think carefully.
Pressure
Academic Failure * Nowadays, studying is not as easy as ancient time where studying is one of their favorite pass times. This is due to strong competitive studying environment. People want to score as high as possible, want to beat down other competitor and become number one academically. Those who put on a lot of pressure on themselves to score the best or other people such as parents put a lot of pressure for their children to score