Teenagers and Drugs

Teenagers should not be using drugs at all. The drugs like alcohol, cigarette, and many more are consuming everyday are slowly killing them, it destroys their life, drugs’ laws criminalise teenagers, and teens that use drugs will create negative effects on their children. Drugs might be everywhere in our world, but we teenagers need to think about our health and our future before accepting the devil’s offers.
Drugs destroy teenager’s life; drugs damage the brain’s functions and create hallucinations. Drugs make teenagers die young, the age interval that hasn’t grown up or hasn’t fully enjoyed their life. Even if they survive after the drugs, the drugs will force them to go through hellish years and months of painful rehabilitation. Drugs manage to create a wall in people’s mind that stops them from thinking properly. Marijuana increases the heartbeat to an abnormal extent; cocaine creates illusions and positive thinking, high thinking. There are so many cases that teenagers die from taking drugs, like jumping off the balcony, unaware of traffics, carelessness. In 2009, 10% of children age 12 to 17 regularly used drugs and the number increases to 46.4% in 2012. Drugfacts website has stated that about 570,000 people on earth die each year due to the use of drugs, 440,000 people die from disease related to tobacco, 85,000 die from alcohol, 20,000 die due to illicit drugs, and the other 20,000 die because of prescription drugs. According to all the statistics, drugs were the main killers after cancer and heart attack in the past few decades, it doesn’t just kill teenagers, it also criminalises them.
Drugs can criminalise teenagers. Teenage is a time interval that is very curious about stuff around them, they would try anything, take in anything because of curiosity, or from the social influences (peer pressure, parents also taking drugs, etc.), enjoying the feeling, risk taking and rebellion can be exciting and worth to try, especially when it involves parental disapproval and illegal substances, the last one also the main reason that many teenagers taking drugs, escapism. Teenagers use drugs as an excuse to avoid problems associated with family life, school life, friendship and relationship difficulties. When there is no more drug to ease these pains or feelings, teenagers could become the scariest criminal in the world, they would rob anyone on the street when no one is looking, they would harm their own parents just to have the money for another dose, they would accept offers from gangs and criminals, doing illegal stuff to “earn” the bloody and dirty money, and they will get caught and expelled from schools eventually, losing their future ahead of them, keep sinking deeper into the life of a criminal. A 16 year-old Mexican boy was arrested because he had murder at least 50 people for a drug gang just for quick money so he can spend on drugs. And just a couple of days ago, 2 boys from Marcellin boy’s college were expelled from the school after dealing in drugs, the 2 boys are only 17 to 18 years old, they had a bright future waiting ahead but they chose not to take that future, that opportunity to learn and grow, to contribute to the society. Drugs criminalise teenagers, in whichever way, taking, dealing, or trafficking, and it likely to create a huge impact on the next generation.
Drugs surely have many effects on a human body, but not just on a single body, it also affects the next generations. When a pregnant woman uses drugs, the toxics and chemicals pass through the placenta to the baby, as the result, the babies usually end up disabled, low birth weight, breathing problem, developmental delays, behavioural and learning problem. No one wants their kids to grow up in an isolated environment, and teenagers don’t seem to care when they are still young, they enjoy their teenage life, consuming and selling drugs, until they grow up, get married and question “Why did my kids end up like this?”. The kids grow up in a druggy environment that their parents bring to them, they will doing drugs when they are old enough, that’s why drug-users never disappeared, they will keep being produced. Many examples of disabled kids due to the drug-using during pregnancy (pictures will be shown on the Power Point presentation). The risk of taking drugs during pregnancy can cause a lot of trouble and problem for the kids in the future.
Although drugs have a lot of negative effects, it is still being used legally in the medical industry. Cocaine can be used as a treatment of cough and pain, Heroin works just like morphine but more addictive. Speed or Ice is used to treat a selection of medical conditions including alcoholism, mild depression, and seasonal allergies. But despite having a positive side, drugs still cannot be legalised and widely used in the society.
Teenagers are our world’s future. Without them, the world will go nowhere, it will not advance, and it will not improve either. We teenagers need to make a choice for our future, either sit and cry, or flap your wings and fly higher. Like Kurt Cobain, a famous American musician who deeply addicted to heroin even said “Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem”.

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