Drug Usage In Middle School

I truly believe that if you can approach and tackle an issue before it arises you have a better chance of preventing long-term issues that will emerge in the future. Through my studies I have learned that if you educate students on bad choice making and the consequences that come from it you have a better chance for those students not to make those bad decisions. For this Midterm Project I plan to target high school students and inform them about drug use and abuse. In my opinion I think that if we teach high school students the effects that drugs can have on your body and your future maybe we can prevent them from using drugs for the first time or stop the issue before it gets out of hand. Students who are in high school can be hard to talk to but if you use material and language that catches their attention your speech can very influential to them. I want to prevent teens from using drugs. I want and need them to be educated on all the harms that illegal substances do to your body immediately after using them and what long-term effects come with it as well. Students should be shown real life examples of citizens who have lived their lives influenced by drugs and examples of successful people who have chose a

The reason I think middle school kids should be drug tested is because they start with a harmless drug then the go to dangerous drugs as the time goes on.As stated on overview2016 in there data they provide.If the schools will test middle school students they will be less likely to take drug and get worse.That is why testing

Students who were randomly drug tested were less likely to use them in later years. There is a 12% average of students in 8th grade that use drugs. New Jersey published the results of a six year study of drug-testing preventions among New Jersey Middle School students. The students asked their parents if they could get randomly drug tested, in the later years the drug abuse reduced. Almost every school now does drug testing for students engaged in sports or extracurricular activities.The primary purpose of drug testing is not a punishment, but to prevent drug abuse, and help them to become drug-free. Drug testing middle school students is a good influence, doing drugs affects the brain and body massively at a young age, many studies show positive

If not even close to half of the middle school population is doing these so called drugs that the schools seem to think they are doing then why give them random drug test why make them

For the past 60 years drugs have found the mainstream among teenagers, especially ages 14-19. High schoolers often delve themselves into the use of drugs shortly after starting high school. Often pressured to do it by upper classmen. Whether it is marijuana, LSD, Ecstasy, or MDMA, kids will experiment with them. Schools all across the USA are drug testing students at random times throughout the school year, and are putting kids into trouble that do not deserve it! Students should only be drug tested if they are in possession of an illegal drug, or are not sober at the time school is taking place.

Drug use is an increasing problem among teenagers in today's high schools. Most drug use begins in the teenage years, these years are the most crucial in the maturing process. During these years adolescents are faced with the difficult tasks of discovering their self identity, clarifying their sexual roles, assenting independence, learning to cope with authority figures and searching for goals that would give their lives meaning. Drugs are readily available, adolescents are curious and venerable, 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

During adolescents there are many things that are going on in development with body as well outward influences surrounding them. According to Stevens and Smith, (2013) “When they enter high school, adolescents again face social, emotional and educational challenges” (p. 288). When adolescents face these types of challenges it can come with a lot of stress and stress can lead to be exposed and pressure into doing certain substances. Sometimes adolescents want to fit in with their friends or experience a thrill by trying drug or other substances that makes them feel cool (Feldman, 2014). They can be exposed to different substances in school, or a family member who uses, or out with friends which consents to their social environment. Depending on the substance can become very addicting after the first time of use or after a few times abusing the

High School, students are using drugs to show a clearer performance in numbers, with that teens hormones doubled through the past year. In 2013 3,705 students took a survey ( that was shown on Wednesday. Teen steroids moved up from 5 percent to 7 percent during that same era. This problem causes people to worry school officials including parents as well, which then would include drug

As a high school teacher and coach, this course has helped me become aware of what steps I need to take in our school to help a student that has a potential drug or alcohol problem. I know I need to have a specific plan, if a student approaches me thinking their friend may have a potential problem with drugs or alcohol. I have conferred with our liaison and school nurse in our school. We have steps that are already in place in our school.

For example Lebron James ,one of the best all-around basketball players ever to play in the NBA, when he was in high school he smoked weed, because he was being pushed so hard into going into the NBA out of high school. This made him very unstable which caused the want to smoke weed. His unstability is similar to other teenagers dealing with being exposed to too many things so fast. There are more normal things that happen to normal middle school kids. Some more common things are being exposed to drugs and being exposed to porn really early. Porn is one of the biggest growing addictions in the world and the average age of kids being exposed to it is 11. This can cause many difficult things to happen to them emotionally, like mood swings and irresponsible attitudes. Sometimes due to these emotional difficulties parents can baby their teenagers.

Teens abusing drugs while in school is not the right way because they struggle while they are in class and affects their learning. Teens getting addicted to drugs while in school. Teens In a young age do drugs while in school, high schoolers having young friends, peer pressure the teenagers to do drugs with them. Teenagers bring drugs to school and leaving or doing drugs during school isn't the right way to come to school because people try to act cool around other people, teens haven't seen how they act in person. Teens not doing drugs would succeed in life because they would not have a slow mentality because after teens start doing drugs a lot they slow down and they can't listen well.

As soon as I walked into the restroom, I witnessed a kid that was offered to smoke. I can tell he didn't want to, but he didn’t want to feel left out. He gave in to the peer pressure, and he accepted just for a little whiff. This is how most students are introduced to drugs, from others. Marijuana is known as the gateway drug, which leads to drug addiction. If middle schoolers are caught using drugs like marijuana, even if they do it for a whiff, the parents will be alerted and might be able to stop the kids from being addicted before it becomes a problem.

West Fargo School give police permission to have occasional visits to prevent drug uses in the schools, helps school to drugs free zone, and student be safe. Sometimes there are some problems with the use of drug sniffing dogs and sometime it makes them feel like a suspect. Some school does not have sniffing dogs and is not required by the state. Sniffing dogs not only helps school it also helps there parent be more caution of their children.

Some might think that school was tough for me, maybe that I was bullied for being poor. I’d just say that no one was rich enough to be that bully. My grades were decent considering my math teacher had such a heavy Hispanic accent. Getting to the point, school really wasn’t as terrible a place as I thought it’d be. At least not if you were careful. Drug use was abundant, even I’d popped a few pills. It’s just… it’s just no one ever told me no. My dad smoked and I’ve found marijuana in my own house. I didn’t do drugs for the high like my fellow classmates. I did it to try to kill myself. I had failed twice, and both times I wasn’t allowed to have dinner for a week. My parents told me they couldn’t afford to keep pumping my stomach. I fear what

Drugs and alcohol are becoming a common matter amongst young adolescents worldwide. As drugs and alcohol are becoming more popular to the extent where their occurrence is “normal” and becoming more socially acceptable especially, youth demographic. Adolescents have been known to be very poor at assessing hazards and are overly optimistic on their ability to avoid putting themselves in situations that make them feel threatened. Yet a significant barrier adolescents seem to have a problem with is peer pressure because they are just beginning to learn about who they are, and what their belief systems are. They can be easily influenced, especially if they have a strong desire to fit into certain groups, and they are becoming more and more