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
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Factors of Drugs Abuse Family Family History * Parents are the main and first influencer in most of our life. Most of the things we learnt are from home. Hence‚ we will easily influence by their attitudes‚ routines‚ and even needs. If our parents have drug addiction or are drug dependant‚ we as their children are likely to have the addiction too. Drugs addiction can be passed from one generation to another. Lack of Parental Supervision / Communication * Love‚ supervision‚ teaching and
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TEENAGE DRUG ABUSE ADDICTIONS AND HOW THEY START • Addictions start because of Sometimes kids and teens try drugs to fit in with a group of friends. Or they might be curious or just bored. A person may use illegal drugs for many reasons‚ but often because they help the person escape from reality for a while. If a person is sad or upset‚ a drug can - temporarily - make the person feel better or forget about problems. But this escape lasts only until the drug wears off. • Drug addiction‚ or substance
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involved in alcohol and drug abuse on a daily basis; whether it be in the neighborhood‚ school‚ or in the playground. Nowadays‚ parents are giving their children more freedom than compared to 10 years ago. Children are also maturing at a faster rate than in the past which leads to them wanting to do things that are not normal for there age. Much of this has to do with the increase in technology. The youth are learning and being introduced to a lot of things such as drugs and alcohol through the
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most kids start‚ because my friends were all doing drugs. My drug abuse started really getting bad at about fourteen years of age. At 14‚ I was using marijuana about three times a day and I was using LSD at least once every two days. By the time I was 17‚ I was no longer using marijuana and LSD. I had moved on to harder and more destructive drugs. I was using amphetamines and cocaine on a daily basis by the age of 17 years of age. I was abusing drugs behind my family’s backs for years. I stayed clean
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hangovers are so severe. The user will swear off the drug after crashing. Some users will even seek help from medical professionals and be prescribed medications. The second drug abuse pattern us where the user “makes peace” with the drug. They accept the suppressed serotonin by using large doses of MDMA. It ends up becoming more like methamphetamine than ecstasy. The fate of the users is not well known in this pattern as it is rarely and abuse pattern. Although‚ most users end up crashing and seeking
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Effects of Drug Abuse People who use drugs experience a wide array of physical effects other than those expected. The excitement of a cocaine effect‚ for instance‚ is followed by a "crash" : a period of anxiety‚ fatigue‚ depression‚ and an strong desire to use more cocaine to alleviate the feelings of the crash. Marijuana and alcohol interfere with motor control and are factors in many automobile accidents. Users of marijuana and hallucinogenic drugs may experience flashbacks‚ unwanted recurrences
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nurses were surveyed anonymously about drug abuse and 20% admitted to misusing at least one prescription drug. In another 1999 report‚ nurses were surveyed anonymously about drug abuse‚ and 20% admitted to misusing at least one prescription drug. Easy access was highly correlated with drug misuse. Nurses reported to use: opioids 60%‚ tranquilizers 40%‚ sedatives 11%‚ amphetamines 3.5%‚ and inhalants 1.9%. Of the top 17 abused prescriptions in 2013‚ 16 of the drugs (94%) are classified as Schedule II
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teenagers said that drugs were sold‚ used or kept at their school. Which means more then 60% of children have been around drugs or people who have drugs. What effects could such a thing have on the average canadian family? As defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‚ drug use is a negative pattern of using a substance that leads to a number of problems‚ which may include needing more of a drug to get intoxicated‚ difficulties that occur when the effects of the drug wear off (withdrawal)
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Teen Drug Abuse Since the mid 19th century‚ drugs always have been part of human life. Drugs today affect most of the teenagers in our society. There are many reasons why teenagers justify their use of recreational drugs. Many believe that taking drugs can relieve them of boredom and also they believe it can help them cope with stress and make them feel happy. In my opinion everyone should stay far away from drugs‚ because drugs can have a very negative effect on their physical and also their
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