Teenage drug abuse is one of the largest problems in society today and the problem grows and larger every year. Drugs are a pervasive force in our culture today. To expect kids not to be influenced by the culture of their time is as “unrealistic as believing in the tooth fairy,” (Jauman 140). Teens may feel pressured by their friends to try drugs, they may have easy access to drugs, they may use drugs to rebel against their family or society, or they may take an illegal drug because they are curious about it or the pleasure that it gives…
Teens who suffer from depression, anxiety, or other psychological disorders may turn to drugs to cope with their problems. Environmental conditions such as parental drug abuse or access to drugs may also lead to teens abusing drugs. Behavioral conditions in which teens act out or actively seek out dangerous behaviors may lead to teen using drugs to produce a euphoric or exaggerated sense of reality to fill a need for excitement. To prevent drug abuse these issues must be addressed and dealt with appropriately.…
We have been listening to stories about drugs since we were born. We also learned about what kind of drugs exist and how dangerous they are. The word drug has always been a synonym for something forbidden and uncommon. However, years passed and cultures changed. Nowadays, the way of life and thinking look completely different. We cannot follow the development of drugs anymore, and the word drug is something normal and very common, especially among youngsters. If we take this under a microscope, we can see that drugs nowadays became somewhat trendy. How many teenagers smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol? How many teenagers smoke marihuana and do hard drugs like heroin? How many young people die because of drugs? How many times we hear that somebody was taken to a hospital from a big Rave party? Dance drugs, all kind of pills, heroin, crack, cocaine, marihuana, and so forth are all flooding the market, and we cannot control this. In this essay, I will explain why taking drugs became trendy and what causes more and more teenagers to do drugs.…
The strongest temptations for youngsters’ drug abuse are usually because of the adolescents are curious. Given the easy availability of drugs, the temptation is really hard to resist. Some of them are looking for extreme excitement caused by drugs, it is also one of the main reasons that the youngsters take up this habit. Young people may turn to drugs as they want to escape from their personal problems or relieve a physical pain and in time they may become dependent on drugs. Also, youngsters like to form groups. If most members in the group take drugs, the rest will follow. This is another example how young people’s behavior can be influenced by their peer group.…
People take drugs because they want to change something about their lives. There are many reasons why people do drugs. They want to fit in with other people, to escape or relax, to relieve boredom, to seem grown up, to rebel or simply to experiment. They think drugs are a solution. But eventually, the drugs become the problem. Difficult as it may be to face one’s problems, the consequences of drug use are always worse than the problem one is trying to solve with them.…
There is no simple answer to why a young person might begin using alcohol or other drugs. Many times, it is a combination of several factors, including society, family and peers. They may turn to drugs to escape stress or loneliness or to overcome shyness in social situations. They may want to be seen as grown up or as a risk taker. Or, they may simply be curious. Teens often want to be like their role models as well. So, if their favorite music group, older sibling, parents or a "cool" peer at school uses drugs or alcohol, they may also use drugs or alcohol to emulate their role model(s).…
A lot of teenagers abuse drugs for a variety of reasons, stress from school, social acceptance or low self-esteem, self-medication, misinformation, and easy access to name several. Seventy three percent of teens of teens report the number one reason for using drugs is to deal with the pressures and stress of school. This was…
Drug abuse is one of the leading struggles that people face every day in society. There are different types of drugs rather it is a recreation drug, prescription or over the counter drug, either can cause a wear and tear on a human’s health. People have their own reasons for why they want to experience drugs. Some people tamer with recreational drugs for the first time out of curiosity. Their either are influence by friends and significant others and mostly start by watching family members growing up. Growing up in a city where there were drugs being sold on every corner and seeing close love ones addicted to drugs like cocaine and heroin I had a chance to witness firsthand the effect that drugs have on people.…
Addicts are usually incapable of processing and expressing their feelings in a healthy way. Inner conflict and an inability to deal with life and the feelings which accompany it are the motivation for addicts to use substances. Getting high helps addicts to avoid their feelings; whether happy, sad, depressed or ecstatic, addiction thrives on an inability to cope with feelings, driving addicts to use.…
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By the time a teenager turns nineteen there is a 98 percent chance that he or she has tried at least one drug (including alcohol). It’s hard to say why teenagers try drugs. Sometimes they don’t even know why they do it. If a person asked ten teenagers at a party why they were getting high, that person would probably get ten different explanations. A lot of the time teenagers don’t even recognize the paths that led them to drug abuse. Drug abuse is usually the result of a problem, an outside influence, or the combination of these. There are many reasons why teenagers decide to use drugs, but there are specific influences that appear time and again.…
Those factors include, environment, individual, family, sociocultural and peer pressure. Most youth do drugs to fit in. they are doing them because someone else is doing it or they fear they will not be accepted socially if they do not do them. As far as a youth’s issue progressing to abuse they could do them to feel good which is one of those individual factors. This stimulates chemicals in the brain and frankly they like how it makes them feel. Sometimes an environment is stressful, creates high anxiety etc which leads to the youth starting drugs and if intervention doe not happen the youth can develop an addiction. Another sociocultural factor, is the need to compete with society. Drugs has been rumored to increase performance and abilities in different areas. Lastly, peer pressure can also get that youth to experiment and that can be deadly. All these factors are equally important in my…
Many of the causes and risk factors of prescription drug abuse are due to a teen’s genetic, physical, and the surrounding environment. “It’s well understood that addiction of all types runs in families. Teens who are born into a family in which addiction played a major role are more likely than their peers to develop an addiction to prescription medication and other drugs” ("Causes, Symptoms & Effects of Prescription Drug Abuse") Teenagers that have an parent or guardian using drugs are more likely to begin abusing them, due constant presence around the prescribed drugs. A teenager’s environment also plays a critical role in impacting their mindset. Friend groups can encourage a teen to start using drugs and sometimes pressure them; additionally…
3). This being said, teenagers are easily influenced to try drugs by their environment. Once initiated, many become dependent on the drug as a way to cope with their overwhelming situations. The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (2007) suggests prominent justifications for drug use surrounding the theme of dealing with psychological conditions, untreated trauma, self-medicating to cope with toxic environment and to fit within their desired peer groups. Cocaine can produce chemical and physicals changes to the brain, “ making it harder to act on the desire to quit” (The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, 2007, p. 3) and as adolescent’s brains are still developing, it can produce harmful long-term effects on that individual that could have easily been averted if interventions and education were deliberated prior to the youth as preventive measures. Cocaine abuse is serious because it can lead to the initiation of other much far harmful drugs and even, mixing drugs together once tolerance has developed from explicit usage, consequently concluding in an overdose and major withdrawal from…
In conclusion The causes of substance abuse are very widespread, but the main factors that play a key role in the abuse of a substance are; stress, and the drugs usage as a stress relief/outlet. Peer groups and the negative influence they have on their surrounding people, or younger adolescents. And gateway drugs which starts of with an already abusive lighter drug and then leads to a more serious drug(cocaine). Therefore resulting with an overall…