BLOG POST 3: TEENAGE DRUG ABUSE

Many teenagers and children now a day are addicted to drugs; some of them are because of peer pressure while the others are because of curiosity.  Teenagers and children are more curious about something that’s why they are the one who are easy to believe. Because they are curiosity they will tend to try a little amount of drugs until one day they would realize that they are addicted to it.

I read an article entitled “What is drug abuse?” from the site medicinenet.com with its writer Roxanne Dryden-Edwards.

She discusses the definition of drug abuse according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It was stated there that drug users are the one who have many problems, that includes difficulties because of drug uses.

She also discusses in this article the stages of drug use. First stage that she discus is the “described as access to drugs but no use thereof”, in this stage she discus that the risk of the factors make teenagers exposed to drug abuse. The Second stage that she discus was “ranges from experimentation or occasional use to regular weekly use of substances”. The Third stage that she discus was “characterized by youth progressing to further increasing the frequency of using one or more drugs on a regular basis”, this stage includes buying selling and other transaction that teenager do when it comes to drugs. The Fourth stage that she discus was “adolescents have established regular usage”. And last but not the lease. The Fifth stage that she discus was “defined by the youth only feeling "normal" when they are using”, in this stage the teenagers was engaged to the bad doings like steeling, drug racing, physical fights , and many more.

According to Roxanne “using more of a substance or for longer time than intended, and other life problems because of their use of a drug or drugs”. I agree with her because I think the drug abuse starts with tasting a little amount of drugs until they felt that there are good effects that drugs bring to them, and when the time goes by they will increase the amount of the drugs they intake because they think that the small amount that they take is not that effective any more.

  

Because of what I read in my previous article I become curious in the effects of drugs so I research the effects of it. Luckily I found the effects of the drugs in the same site and with same writer that I use in my previews article.

Luckily I found this article entitled “What are the dangerous effects of drug use in teens?” from the site medicinenet.com with its writer Roxanne Dryden-Edwards.

She discus here the effects of drug use/ abuse for teenager.  The First effect that she discus was about the attention of the teenagers. The Second effect that she discus was about the feeling of needing a drugs when they want to quit in using drugs. The Third effect that she discus was about the eagerness of a teenager in having an unprotected intercourse with a stranger and having a rape cases. The Fourth effect that she discus was about the cases that the teenagers are having a hallucinations and emotional problems like anxiety, mood swings, and even depression. The Fifth effect that she discus was about drugs can cause baldness, heart attacks, strokes, liver disease, cancer, acne and infections, including HIV/AIDS in both sexes. The Sixth effect that she discus was about drugs can cause death.

According to Roxanne “The younger a person is when they begin using drugs the more likely they are to develop a substance-abuse” I agree with her because it is true that the younger age of a person  uses drugs the higher the risk of him/her to be addicted to it.

In teleserye and film/movies, there are many instances that they promote drugs like in  A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Babel  and . These films/movies and teleserye are the one who makes the teenagers more curious in using drugs that leads to drug abuse after a long time.

I found a article entitled “Do Movies and TV Series Influence Drug Use?” from the site floridabeachrehab.com with its writer Adam Barny.

In this article he discus about the question “Do TV shows depicting drug use promote the use of drugs or do they help prevent substance abuse?”. He discus that their are many movie and teleserye that showing weeds, and some of the actors/character in the story are required to use drugs because  it is part of the story, but the children and teenagers are curious and  do not know that using drugs is  an illegal doing.

According to Adam “For a while I tried to convince others that Breaking Bad doesn't really glorify meth; in fact, it mercilessly portrays the self destruction that follows naturally from meth addiction. I argued that the show doesn’t promote meth any more than Schindler’s List promotes Nazism — that is, it may desensitize viewers to the horrors of that particular world, but it would never encourage them to adopt the lifestyle. After all, it’s only a TV show” I agree with him because not all thing that we can see in our television is appropriate, sometimes the things that we can saw in our television is bad and not appropriate.

With these two articles, I conclude that drugs can really destroy human’s life (family, career, personality, the way how we think and many more). There are many things that drugs can cause to us. Some people uses drugs because of problems in life, but do they even think that drugs cannot give solution to their problems, yes it can cause happiness and contentment for some, but after the effect of the drugs they will be back in reality, reality that their problem is still there, that using drugs do not give the solution to their problems. So to wrap this up I think we people  do not need to use/depend on drugs because drugs can destroy our life. And i also learn that not all that we can see in our television is good and appropriate.