Why Teenagers Abuse Drugs
Introduction
Drug abuse is the dependence on chemicals or substances that alter one’s normal body functioning. It can severely alter the functioning thus making the user its slave and can actually do nothing constructive without it. Sadly a huge number of teenagers are indulging into drugs either knowingly or unknowingly. How does that happen, why do they get to use these drugs?
The following are major reasons as to why teenager end up abusing drugs
Peer pressure in most teenagers is an influential force at any stage of life, but it’s more influential at the period of adolescence. At that moment when children are trying to figure out who they are and where they will fit in, when insecurities can be brutal and the desire to be established and liked makes them saying “NO” to be very difficult. However, saying no can also have painful consequences, varying from being laughed at or mildly teased, humiliated, rejected and even intimidate. Peer pressure frequently come from cool kid who says, “Hey, it’s just weed” or “drink up” and just have fun after all, who’s going to recognize if no one tells? When you give in it start a little by little eventually you become an addict (Aue, Pamela Willwerth, 2006).
All adolescents regularly want to be treated and feel like adults. The term “I’m not a kid any longer” is a common mantra, particularly when teenagers want privileges that come along with age i.e. using alcohol (Torr Barbour & Hurley, 2009). It’s not a shock that they’re strained to things that make them feel like an adult or grown-ups, more mature, more sophisticated. Engaging in drinking, smoking and even drug use can all increase that feeling. With that kind of behavior bring the illusion that one is truly an adult and therefore can be able handle everything. Sadly, a bad thing can rapidly shatter it and strike a chord to them just