Introduction As a 12 year old pre-teen‚ I started experimenting with marijuana. I started because of the same reasons that 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
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Drug and Alcohol use A lot of college and high school students use drugs and alcohol frequently‚ they do it to find a way to escape reality because it’s too hard for them. Some people see it as a serious problem like their life is threaten by that. I on the other hand down really see it as a problem. I don’t see it as a problem because first of all that person is only trying to have a nice and fun time. Secondly when someone is on drugs or have been drinking they get to lazy to do anything that’s
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Drug and Alcohol Abuse In The United States One of the most common problems that the youth face today in America is drug and alcohol abuse. In todays world drinking and smoking is not viewed as harmful or dangerous anymore‚ matter of fact its viewed as being cool and is a good thing. With newer drugs coming in‚ more people getting addicted‚ and more new youngsters staring them‚ it has become one of the biggest problems in America. Truth is that drugs and alcohol use is spreading
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society‚ teens are a common target of anti-drug campaigns and government advertisements. The goal of these campaigns is to make teens and young adults aware of the dangers associated with drug use. While these campaigns are generally effective‚ teens are still greatly tempted by the dangerous‚ exciting‚ and fast-paced world of club drugs. Despite the information they are constantly receiving from their teachers‚ parents‚ and government media‚ some teenagers will still adamantly pursue drugs in hopes
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ALCOHOL ABUSE AMONG TEENAGERS: General View: It ’s very interesting that I find myself writing about something that not only is commonsense‚ but what is more‚ something that every one knows about in general but may not in particular. Alcohol use among teenagers is a serious problem and is responsible for death and injury in automobile accidents‚ physical and emotional disability‚ deterioration of academic performances‚ aggressive behavior that causes a number of other sociological problems
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not healthy. The problem of alcohol and drug abuse is of central concern nowadays. It is especially acute among the youth and this fact horrifies most of all. Today the statistics shows deplorable numbers of young people‚ drinking and taking drugs. Alcohol abuse is itself very harmful for a human organism‚ especially for a young one as it destroys brain cells and other organs. However‚ the harmful effect on different apparatuses is not the only harm brought by alcohol abuse. The consequences of alcoholic
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Drugs speech Good afternoon. I’m here to tell you all about the effects of drugs on your young vital stage of development. I am not here to tell you what is right or wrong but I am here to educate you in order to help you make the right decision when faced with the prospect of drugs. Drugs may seem a surprising topic at this point in time‚ but very soon parties will start dominating your social life and drugs and alcohol will crawl themselves in. This is a result of experimentation‚ curiosity
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everybody i’m going to tell you a story. A couple days ago I was in my history class‚ and naturally we were watching an episode of The Simpsons. During the episode Homer one of his most famous lines “To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life’s problems” and I thought to myself what is alcohol the solution to? For instance on September 25th 2015 a man named Marco Muzzo made a bad choice and decided to drive drunk. After speeding away from the airport he crashed into a car killing 3 children
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Teen Drug Addiction We all heard and read a lot about drug abuse. Although there are many organizations in the whole world trying to fight with this problem‚ the amount of dependent is increasing every year. In my native country‚ in Belarus‚ it became the biggest social problem because it started to affect teenagers. This problem is discussing very often in the schools and colleges. People are trying to figure out the causes of this horror. However‚ the main causes begin at home including: too
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As I’m sure you know‚ drug abuse has been a big problem in the United States for many years. There are more and more people being taken to jail daily for having possession of illegal substances. Because so many of these people are being held in jail for such a small crime‚ people who are committing much worse crimes‚ like putting other people in danger‚ are getting away with shorter and less severe punishment. We are running out of room for the people who need to be in prison by filing them up with
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