Drug usage in the United States and the world can be considered as one big problem. This following document includes many sources that include information about helping prevent drug use among society. Using drugs can cause many problems to one such as mental, social, and law problems as well. Most drug use starts at a fairly young age, and is also influenced by friends or even family. Although there are many ways out there to help people stay off drugs or even get off of them, not all of them seem to work. Rehabs, drug prevention programs, Public service announcements, and ad campaigns are many things out in our society that are there to help prevent drug use. So what is the best way help prevent drug usage/abuse? How will we make the best way known to people? With the research the author has done, there are many ways that adults/parents can do to help reduce teen drug use. Some of those can be by relying more on prevention programs that have been proven to work. Much of his research also shows many of studies that were done by universities that showed that much of drug use was caused by families and friends. He believes that preventing teen drug use will need to become a priority for our society because drug usage has been proven to begin at a young age and continues to begin even earlier as the years go by, and also drugs have been proven to cause many health issues. Many of his sources describe many ways that drug prevention can be successful. Overall, drug use can be prevented by families becoming more open with their children, creating better active prevention programs, and including the media more into drug prevention.
Preventing Drug Use among Young Teens
Teen drug use can be considered a big problem in our world today. Whether its marijuana, alcohol, or even cigarettes, teens and young children are beginning to experiment with drugs at a very young age. As a society we have not done enough to educate our young children about drugs and