Teenage Drug Abuse

Teenage Drug Abuse

Drug abuse is not a new case anymore, since it has existed for a long time. It has

been discovered that most people who struggle with drug addiction began experimenting with

drugs in their teens. There are many different factors in our society that have contributed to the

support of drugs. One such reason is that 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

them. Others would say the parents failed as role models. Another reason is that drugs are a

pervasive force in our culture today. To expect kids not to be influenced by the culture of their

time is unrealistic. To begin with, kids today start at a young age using, selling, and experimenting with

drugs. First, they use drug to get some sort of pay-off, whether getting high helps them fit in, and

second, is that by using drugs teenagers can escape their problems as it helps them to solve

problems. Actually, drugs only make them become worse and even dangerous for their live.

Teenagers are in an age where how they act or they do is very important to them

and how others view them. As Professor Mark Kittleson refers in his book The Truth about

Drugs, teenagers who have not succeeded in establishing good relations with their peers are

more likely than other teenagers to do poorly in school, cut classes, engage in delinquent

behavior, hang around with peers who get into trouble, drop