Drug_Abuse

Drug Abuse Introduction Teenage years are much like a midpoint in ones life.When a person is neither a kid or an adult. At this period, teens have passed the age when they were called kids but are not yet qualified to be adults. Teenagers want to think like adults, behave like adults and also start to view themselves as independent beings in decision making. All the hormonal changes also come with the negativity of maturity such as drugs and alcohol. . Statistics have showed that the percentage of teens using drugs and alcohol in the last decade has increased. But why is this' The answer is that teenagers are under pressure by their peers, mass media and also the influence of parents. Peer pressure Peer pressure plays a major role in the harmful behavior of teens. Teens who want to fit in among their friends are most especially fall in to this. They try to make friends and they get friends any way as possible. Of these friends there are the good ones who give them the knowledge and information they want and need and there are the ones who give them information about not too good things like drug, teens, information, parents, friends, alcohol, teenagers, media, drugs, about, way, tv, ones, good, drug, adults, world, soap, shows, responsible, responsibility, pressure, peers, party, operas, movies, meant, mature, mass, make, indirectly, increased, harmful, give, enough, directly, begin, because, audience, among, alcoholism, age, adult, yet, years, year, writer’s, worked, whom, weekend, watch