Teenage Drug Abuse

INTRODUCTION

The life decisions we make currently in our individual lives ultimately will effect, be it better or for worse, the futures of our lives. For instance one who neglects to learn how to read will be handicapped by their inability to read for the rest of their life until they learn to read. Lack of curbing problems while they are still in their growth stage can be tremendously more difficult to curb when the problems have reached their maturity. For these reasons teens are at a unique time in their lives to be able to change, if they are in the right situation with enough leverage for a significant amount of time As their drug/alcohol use will ultimately still be in the growth stage.

One of the best reasons to get a help for teens while they are still teenagers, beyond being a very formidable time in a childs life, is the consequences of inaction upon future generations. Statistics have shown that instances of teen drug addiction run in long chains from parents to children. This is why now is the time to either break the chain of teen drug addiction or stop it from forming. No amount of hard work, money, sacrifice is worth more than breaking a chain of substance abuse or preventing one from forming.

Objective:

Statement of the problem:

1. What drugs are abused by teenagers?

Virtually every drug that is abused by adults is also abused by adolescents. In addition to alcohol, common categories of drugs of abuseinclude:

• Tobacco products (for example,cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco)

• Cannabinoids (for example,marijuana, hashish), sometimes called "pot, weed, Mary Jane, or herb" and is smoked in a "joint," "blunt," "bong," or pipe

• Stimulants (for example,amphetamines, cocaine,methamphetamine), sometimes called "bennies, black beauties,speed, uppers, blow, crack, rock, toot, crank, crystal, or skip

2. What are the dangerous effects of drug use in teens?

Just a few of the many dangerous effects of drug use in adolescents...