Teens And Drugs

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Drug use is the increasing problem among teenagers in today's high schools. Most drug use begins in the preteen and teenage years, these years most crucial in the maturation process. During these years adolescents are faced with difficult tasks of discovering their self identity, clarifying their sexual roles, assenting independence, learning to cope with authority and searching for goals that would give their lives meaning. Drugs are readily, adolescents are curious and vulnerable, and there is peer pressure to experiment, and there is a temptation to escape from conflicts. The use of drugs by teenagers is the result of a combination of factors such as peer pressure, curiosity, and availability. Drugs addiction among adolescents in turn lead to depression and suicide.
One of the most important reasons of why teenagers use drugs is peer pressure. Peer pressure can have a positive or a negative effect, depending on the attitude of the persons group. We are greatly influenced by the people around us. In today's schools drugs are very common, peer pressure usually is the reason for teens using drugs. If the people in the group use drugs there will be pressure. One way a person is can be pressured is to directly offer them to try drugs. The other way is when someone sees everyone around using drugs and think that there is nothing wrong with using drugs. The person might try drugs just to fit in the social norms, even if a person had no intentions of using drugs one might do it just to be considered "cool" by his friends. Today drugs are considered to be an acceptable social phenomenon by many teenagers. Here is a personal example of drug use from a teenager, " When I started using, was only on weekends, at parties. I used drugs 'recreationally and therefore thought I had no addiction problem. I used drugs like nicotine, marijuana or LSD to be happy or to have fun. I needed drugs. I kept using drugs; I used drugs like marijuana to fit so...