These days, drugs can be found everywhere, and it may seem like everyone's doing them. Lots of people are tempted by the excitement or escape that drugs seem to offer.
But learning the facts about drugs can help you see the risks of chasing this excitement or escape. And just as there are many kinds of drugs available, there are as many reasons for trying them or starting to use them regularly. People take drugs just for the pleasure they believe they can bring. Often it's because someone tried to convince them that drugs would make them feel good or that they'd have a better time if they took them.
Some teens believe drugs will help them think better, be more popular, stay more active, or become better athletes. Others are simply curious and figure one try won't hurt. Others want to fit in. A few use drugs to gain attention from their parents.
Many teens use drugs because they're depressed or think drugs will help them escape their problems. The truth is, drugs don't solve problems — they simply hide feelings and problems. When a drug wears off, the feelings and problems remain, or become worse. Drugs can ruin every aspect of a person's life.
Drug abuse has as many definitions as the effects that it has on the society and the individual. Efforts to address drug abuse have intensified over the last one decade due to an increase in the levels of awareness on the effects of drug abuse on the individual, community and the entire society. The internet, schools, hospital and public forums are all increasingly being used to address drug abuse that is developing into a key social problem.
Drug abuse originates with the individuals irrespective of the influence and nature of the family it is the individual who starts partaking in drug related activities (Karch,
2007). It therefore makes sense that the individual should be central to analysis of the effects of drug abuse. It is individuals who make the families and communities thus