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Why do young people harm themselves by consuming illegal substances?
These days doing drugs has become a trend on teenagers. There are so many reasons out there why teens consume drugs; sometimesthey do it because of relaxation, socializing or curiosity but I have found that the most likely reasons why they do drugs it’s because they tend to have problems in their families, bad influence orpeer pressure by their friend, and also because adolescence is a period of experimentation.
Due to several problems that teenagers confront on their houses as a result they opt for doing drugsbecause they consider is the best way of getting away from their problems. By consuming these substances they try to feel better and for a moment to forget everything. This has become a common act now intimes. I would say that this is not the best way of getting away from problems on the contrary this is becoming a crisis because they are getting addicted to this substances, which is worse.
On theother hand, bad influence could be another reason why adolescents get into drugs. Not just because it turn out to be a trend but also because they want to feel part of a group or due to peer pressure bytheir “friends”. Peer influences have been found to be among the strongest predictors of drug use during adolescence. University of Michigan.(2012). Adolescents and Peer Pressure,http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.darnell/peer_pressure_and_drug_use
For adolescents between13-20 it’s easier to get narcotics because it seems that a lot of people around sell these illegal substances. As a result ofnot having any complication in obtaining drugs, why not to experience what is fashionable in all youth or why not to take a risk after all “we only live once”.
Alcohol, marihuana and tobacco are the 3most commonly used drugs among teenagers. According to the National Drug Strategy Household Survey of Australia from the age of 14-19 years, in 2010, 67% had tried alcohol and 21.14% drink alcohol...
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