Essay on Drugs and Youth in English : First of all, what is a drug? A drug is a chemical that produces a therapeutic and non therapeutic effect on the body. Today, there are more than 40 million users and dealers of illegal drugs in the world out of which over 35% are just teenagers. It's a sad reality that the teenage stage of one's life in which one experiences a variety of changes can be used to experience the wrong things at the wrong point in time.
Essay on Drugs and Youth in English
First
of all, what is a drug? A drug is a chemical that produces a therapeutic and
non therapeutic effect on the body. Today, there are more than 40 million users
and dealers of illegal drugs in the world out of which over 35% are just
teenagers. It's a sad reality that the teenage stage of one's life in which one
experiences a variety of changes can be used to experience the wrong things at
the wrong point in time.
The usage of drugs by
teens can be of varying reasons; the most common of them all is peer pressure.
Kids are often threatened if their friends are using drugs and in order to
"fit in" the also follow suit. Teens often don't see the link between their
actions today and the consequences tomorrow. Another reason may be due to the
fact of being brought up in a drug filled home; children are exposed to many
harmful ideas at such a young age.
Often parents who work
for long hours and have very less time for parenting often miss out giving
sound advice to their children on certain issues, as a result, devoid, of
attention and love from their families, teens often seek refuge at certain
things and places that would make them feel accepted and loved.
They of become gangsters
or even drug dealers themselves, poor parents working and slaving away for
their kids will have no idea about the whereabouts of their kids. Teens also
may use drugs to reduce stress, to feel grown up or just out of curiosity. The
number of teen smokers and alcohol users has escalated at an alarming rate, and
teens who smoke and drink at a young age are more likely to become drug users
in future.
Teens at risk of
developing drug habits in future include depressed those who are often
depressed, those with low self esteem, and those who feel like they don't with
family history of drugs.
Teens use a variety of
drugs both legal and illegal, ranging from tobacco to ecstasy. Tobacco has been
in practice among teens all over the world. Kids start the habit of smoking at,
a pathetic age of 14 or less and the age is decreasing at an alarming rate.
Teens often come across
such drugs at parties and such teen hang out places, where there would be no
adult supervision. Cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other club drugs
such as raves and trances has all been abused by teens not the mention,
alcohols and booze such as beer or vodka.
Drugs are often taken
because of their immediate effect alcohols give immediate relaxation and a
slight anesthetic effect and slowly the person lose control of himself.
Drinking is a teen’s fatal attraction; it leads to drunken state of mind and
violent behaviors such as homicide, suicide and crimes.
Drug use is a plague to
society and must be stopped. We should attack the demand and supply. We should
stop the circulation and extreme punishment must be meted out mercilessly to
those who choose to defy the law.
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