Critical Analysis in Literature

Being teenagers is often a confusing, challenging time. Teenagers may be involved with legal or illegal substance abusers.  Experimentation with these substances during adolescence is common.  Unfortunately, teenagers often don’t see the link between their actions today and the consequences tomorrow. They also have a tendency to feel indestructible and immune to the problems that others experience. There most popular substance abusers are drug, smoking and drinking.

According to the result of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), a young person average day includes drug, smoking and drinking. On an average day in 2006, about 1.2 million adolescents, age 12 to 17, smoked cigarettes, 631,000 drank alcohol, and 586,000 used marijuana. This statement tells us that teen practising this in their daily life.

There are factors that causing teen falls to substance abuse. The factors are insufficient parental supervision and monitoring, lack of communication and interaction between parents and kids, poorly defined and poorly communicated rules and expectations against drug use, inconsistent and excessively severe discipline, family conflict, favourable parental attitudes toward adolescent alcohol and drug use, and parental alcoholism or drug use. We also pay attention on individual risk factors that are high sensation seeking, impulsiveness, psychological distress, and difficulty maintaining emotional stability, and perceptions of extensive use by peers.

Once teens start using drug, alcohol and cigarettes, they are not usually motivated to stop. For many teens, drugs are a pleasurable way to relax and fit in. For teens, drugs also did not represent a serious threat because teens typically have the mentality that they are invincible. Most of the teen like to earn money in illegal form by selling drugs. Selling drugs cost more money because the world searches for it. Teens selling drugs and make it as a business....