Parental And Peer Influences On The Risk Of Adolescent Drug Use

The use and misuse of illicit drugs in today’s society can be blamed on both individual, and societal factors. With the use of societal factors researchers can show the effect for a larger population, and provide better information of the population. Blaming the individual for developing the addiction will not fix issues that lie in society that worked against the individual, the underlying issues of poverty and addiction, many scholarly articles mention bad neighborhoods, low income, and loose family ties with future drug use. I will be using evidence from articles involving both teen and adult drug use and addiction, as the effect on society is noticed in both age brackets. “Substance use is considered a problem by individual addicts who seek treatment, by institutions within society (such as the police or the medical system) that deal with substance use and its consequences on a day-to-day basis, and by national organizations such as governments or supranational organizations, such as the International Narcotics Control Board (a United Nations agency located in Vienna). (Adrian) I will be using scholarly articles to explain the sociological reasoning behind drug use, with theories involving low-income neighborhoods, leading to lessening of family involvement which can lead to drug use. “Drug abuse affects a community 's living conditions and economy, its youth, and the environment for crime.” (Watts)

The article that I chose from Nissen’s bibliography article is the role of family in preventing and intervening with substance use and misuse and family interventions that focus on young people. The article talks about how families plays a key part in helping prevent substance abuse and misuse by both promoting and encouraging safety and resilience. Young people are prone to become involved with drugs and not only harm themselves but their families as well. In the United States 12 percent of people in the population aged 12-17, have used some type of illicit drugs (Vellememan, Templeton & Copello, 2004). Young people are easily influenced into the use and misuse of substance abuse. When the child has a close family bond and a positive relationship with family, that closeness has been found to discourage their choices to try drugs and alcohol through positive reinforcements within the family structure. There is evidence that children who are from single parent

In the article of The Impact of Substance Use Disorders on Families and Children: From Theory to Practice, it refers to the effects of substance abuse on children. In the article the attachment of nurturing, and socialization for humans in current society remains solely up to the family. Each family member is affected by the behavior choice of substance abuse which clings to the family unit and gives impaired needs. The family environment is damaged and it leads to all kinds of problems in the family. The environment have a great impact on the effects of substance abuse on children and it effects the entire family and the behavior of the child. As children transition into adulthood they are still affected of what happened to them in their

The main implication is that drug use is learned and gives support to the idea that it is crucial to know the effects of your environment, TV programs, and peers. Throughout our class course we have been told about these different theories. In class we see that juveniles tend to learn behavior from peers. This now gives me a better understanding that it is not just juveniles. Although this was interesting I feel that there was much more questions about the different variable that could have been asked to gain further knowledge. I did appreciate that this group of citizens were studied. When reading the article it did point out that most of marijuana surveys include the younger generation. The younger the influences are thrown into our life the more social learning we go through with weed, especially in our youth when we tend to cling to those we have the most in common

Adolescent substance abuse is a major problem in society. There are many risk factors that can contribute to adolescent substance abuse. One of the main risk factors is peer pressure. When adolescents start at a young age there is an increase in health problems, addiction, and over all poor social outcomes. Parental influence has substantial effect on adolescents because the adolescent sees their parents and they learn by their example. Media plays a role in the use of drug and alcohol use among young people. Many school systems have implemented programs that teach adolescents about the problems of substance abuse that is funded

The celebration of drug use in the media leads children into glorifying drugs. Children have two choices to either use drugs or be abstinent. The cost of hypocrisy has spearheaded our society into not offering adequate funding towards addiction prevention and treatment. The government, health insurance companies, and the clinical teams have placed a lot of negative stigmas on treatment for individuals suffering from addiction. Also, the family influence on drug use involves: single-parent and divorced families, dysfunctional families, and a family’s addiction cycle and the family genetics. These four family influences play a significant role in determining if a child will utilize

In a world filled with violence and traumatic events, young adults are the most vulnerable to them. We see a trend in students hanging out with the wrong crowd digging a deeper hole for themselves; getting involved with drugs, alcohol, and eventually becoming dependent and addicted to them. In discussions of substance abuse and the external factors affecting teenage youth, I believe that parents, society, age, and peers are main factors that contribute to a teenagers ' drug addiction.

Relationship status similarly influences use and potential development of substance use disorders. The risk of becoming a drug abuser involves the relationship among the number and type of risk factors (e.g., deviant attitudes and behaviors) and protective factors (e.g., parental support). The potential impact of specific risk and protective factors changes with age. For example, risk factors within the family have greater impact on a younger child, while association with drug-abusing peers may be a more significant risk factor for an adolescent (Robertson, E. B., David, S. L., & Rao, S. A. 2003).

Families are supposed to provide the environment where people understand and support each other. However, when there are a lot of conflicts and aggression, children tend to turn to drug abuse as a stress management solution. People who are undergoing the domestic violence and abuse have the high chances of using drugs that those living peaceful lives. Children can also start abusing drugs because of lack of restrictions from the parents. When the parents are not strict with their children about the use of drugs, it becomes easy for them to start abusing drugs. Parents should, therefore, prevent the drug abuse at home by avoiding a lot of quarrels and negotiating to come up with the right solutions to the problems. They should also remain role models and teach their school going children to stop associating with the

Substance abuse among adolescents has become more common in the United States and the root of the problem is aimed towards blaming parental influence. The article, Adolescents’ perceptions of Parental; Influence on Their Smoking Behavior: A Content Analysis is mainly about a study that consisted of interviewing 35 adolescents ranging from the ages of 14 and 18 to find out if and how their parents influenced their personal smoking behaviors (Maggi et al. 2014). The interviews were recorded and lasted about 45 minutes and in the end all participants described their parents as the main influencers in their experience with tobacco (Maggi et al. 2014). For example, whether adolescents choose to listen to parental messages about smoking may largely depend on the quality of relationship with their parents, the level of trust that is shared between them, or the respect that they have for their parents (Maggi et al. 2014). I found this information to be relevant to my personal experience with tobacco as I could agree that my parents’ personal use of cigarettes made using them appear harmless. Parental influence plays a large role in substance abuse among adolescents and according to this article it all depends on the strength of parent to child relationship, but what about the influence of other relationships and how that shapes their decision about substance abuse. In our study we aim to find how their involvement with their religion has influenced abstinence from drugs.

The possibility of abuse and addiction being inherited within the lives of an adolescents are very likely due to many circumstances. Adolescences are faced with many factors and issues during the adolescent stage where there would be a possibility of resorting to drugs. Adolescences are faced with several issues that can lead them in the path of drug abuse and addiction such as influence of peers, depression, and modeling parent’s behavior. Abuse is geared towards adolescent’s frequency of used drug and increasing dosage, abuse becomes into drug dependency. Addiction is fueled by abuse and is eventually the impact of abuse creates a stimulating effect where brain craves substance. “Heavy drug abuse by adolescent is, itself, a serious problem.

A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the impact of family and peers on both initiation and continuation of substance use among adolescent students. 416 sample were taken. Results of the study was showed that prevalence of substance use found to be higher among the students of urban area (15.1%) than their rural area (10. 7%). Higher grade students were more engaged in comparison to low grade students. The mean age of initiation to substance use ranged from 12.6 to 13.9 years. Family members, friends, easy availability were found to be influencing factor for initiation. The study was concluded that family environments as well as peers groups has an important bearing on initiation and continuation of substance use. Hence, it is necessary to provided that health promotion programs directed toward students and their families and peers groups which encourage attitude shaping among school children towards self-confidence and adequacy.11

Peers have a strong influence on whether other young people will use drugs and alcohol. Per Duan, Chou, Andreeva, and Pentz (2008), peer influence is a significant risk factor for adolescents who choose to experiment with drugs and alcohol. Peers who use drugs and alcohol will attempt

Families in the United States are composed of parents who live in a community. There are families who face challenges that affect adolescents. The most common problem seen today is adolescents that were influenced to do drugs or already doing them. According to the National Survey on Drug Use shows that 53,000 adolescents from 12 to 17 are already doing drugs. These problems are weakening families and ethical values which make adolescents rebel. In other words, drug use can lead to violent crimes, sexual molestation, and teenage pregnancy that causes challenges for families. The issues, including drug use are principally about stressful life events, peer impact, and failure of guardians to keep adolescents away from harmful activities. Besides,

Sometimes that I learned about the article was, that some drug addict can be very harmful to children. Some kids are even scared to be around their own parents because of their drug addiction. It also talks about how kids are even afraid that their own schoolmates find out that their parents are drug addicts. Also, many drug addiction care about their families, but need or have the urge to feed their addiction so it seems that they don’t care but in reality they do. " Substance misuse may be one of a series of inter-related factors within a family, such as poverty or depression, so that disentangling exactly what causes poor outcomes for the child can be difficult,"(Hart 9 ). In other words, children do not really understand why their