Essay On Teenage Substance Abuse

As a counselor in training and an advocate for individuals’ mental health and wellness, I chose to become an official member of the American Counseling Association (ACA) and create an advocacy project to enhance adolescent mental health and wellness by advocating for more available protective factor to reduce substance use and abuse among this population. The purpose of this paper/project is to address and improve the rate of substance use and abuse among adolescents in Pitt County, more specifically in Greenville, North Carolina. This paper goes into great detail of the description of the population (adolescents), providing statistical evidence of adolescents’ use of drugs in Greenville. An increase in youth involved community activities, community service work and parental involvement will be discussed as ways to create a healthy, anti-drug, and stable environment for adolescents in Greenville, North Carolina.

There are thousands of police reports a year of injuries and fatalities from teens who are involved in vehicle accidents due to alcohol intoxication. Even though parents may not realize it, they can do so many things to limit the practice of underage drinking starting with their kids. A simple way that parents can help is by simply being there for their children. Parents may not realize that just by being around their kids, they can realize things that may being

When it comes to Stevie there are environmental factors that contributed to his circumstances. First, is the idea that Steve was socially isolated from other children growing up. This is because he lived in the country and the only neighbors that are around him was his family members and other adults. Next, is that Stevie had a stepfather in his life named Arvile. This is important because Arvile tried to quickly build a relationship with Stevie and be the father figure that he never had. Even though Arvile’s attempt with Stevie did not succeed, Stevie considered himself to be just raised by Bernice until he was left with Verna. This would be considered being raised by a single parent. Last, is the factor of a disability. It appears by his behavior and

Imagine laying on the floor in your own pool of sweat—miserable, your mind bouncing off the walls while the cloud of your darkest thoughts looms over you. Teeth chattering anxiously, waiting to receive the next second, minute, hour of painless bliss. This—this is the life of an addict; does this horror appear to be a choice or more like a disease haunting the mind of the user? Despite the fact a choice was needed to initiate the result, addiction itself is a debilitating disease NOT a choice due to initial influences and anatomical changes to the brain.

In the United States today many teens have the problem of underage drinking. Whether they do it to look cool or to have fun, it is an enormous problem. In fact, one our four teens state that the would ride with a driver that is intoxicated (“Underage Drinking”). This shows that teenagers and not only irresponsible with alcohol, but also uniformed of the serious consequences. Although the rates of underage drinking have dropped within time, there are still ways to lower these rates more (Klass). With much research and problem solving, I have come up with three different ways to lessen the issue of underage drinking. The three options I focused my research on was changing the way colleges teach, lowering the drinking age, and informing

Underage drinking has been a huge problem in the United States of America. Underage drinking need to be regulated more closely so it can be stopped. Unfortunately, minors tend to see drinking as an adult thing which makes it fall into the category of being “cool”. More teenagers are giving into peer pressure and are getting involved in the consumption of alcohol. A study done in 2003 by the U.S Department of Health and Human Resources shows that most teenagers start drinking at the age of fourteen years old. This is a massive problem because teenagers have not completely developed yet. The consumption of alcohol can cause major damage to their brain. This is a topic that can bring a lot of families across the world to tears. To think

When kids get into fifth grade a D.A.R.E officer comes to teach the fifth graders about how bad drugs are to your health and how much they can ruin your life. D.A.R.E is a program for fifth graders that teaches them not to use addictive substances because of how it can ruin your life. Once a week, on Mondays, at the end of the school day our classroom has D.A.R.E. Every city that has the D.A.R.E program for their schools has their own D.A.R.E officer. In Kennewick we have officer Mike Myer. D.A.R.E is a program that uses the authority of the police to teach the consequences of using addictive substances like drugs, alcohol, smoking, and explains how the social factors affect people on making wrong choices.

“Today’s underage drinker is tomorrow’s drunk driver.” Quoted by David Deiuliis. Have you ever been around someone under the age who has consumed alcohol? If so give them the help they need. Underage drinking has been a problem for many years and the number of underage drinkers has gone up. There is always time for change, but it just takes someone to step up and say something about it.

My topic is on juvenile drug abuse and my argument is that, juveniles who are caught doing drugs, or abusing them should not be given such harsh punishment, fines, and other things like that. Instead these juveniles should be given help and ways away from the drugs they have abused. This could be done by seeing what kind of home environment they are living in and what kind of parental supervision they are under. Most times when a juvenile is abusing drugs or being given drugs is when they are under no parental supervision or not good enough parental supervision. Juvenile drug abuse and its consequences serve a hard lesson on kids who face an actual problem which is easily fixable. If juveniles were helped instead of punished for drug abuse, the rates of juvenile drug addiction would drop dramatically.

Farm stores, fake ID’s, and parent’s cabinets are just a few of the ways that teens can get their hands on alcohol. Their own cars, parent’s car, and friend’s cars are a few of the ways that teens have access to motor vehicles. Being how easy it was to get alcohol and a car, imagine how easy it will be to mix teens, drinking, and driving. The terrible dangers and consequence that can come from such an event can disastrous and scary. Teen drinking and driving is dangerous because of the risk of accidents in the college environment, injuries that have occurred because of carelessness, and deaths that shouldn’t occur because of teen drinking.

Teens that begin to drink alcohol at the early age often develop diseases, dropout of school, and cause crimes. For example, in the book Teenage Addiction it says “Alcohol is implicated in some 41% of all academic problems and 28 percent of all dropouts. Think about the health of these young teens.

Teen drug use around the world should be stopped because there’s possible reasons why in the future it might get even worser. It’s better to take precautions and take measures right now to see what is happening. If you are a parent, you should seek out to help your teen instead of not caring. Any parent should worry what their teenager is going through. You want to be able to talk to them, for them to open up to you of what’s going on. You have to know why they are doing drugs and should care about their opinions and not brush them off. I think as in a personal opinion there should be something where teenagers can seek help for themselves if they don’t have parents to help them or support them in the hard times. It’s not about pushing teenagers

My project is a workshop, that intends to educate, create, and equip, the adolescents, fifteen to nineteen, on responsible drinking habits. As well as enlighten them on the several consequences that are associated with irresponsible drinking behaviors. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention states that, “Alcohol is the most commonly used and abused drug among youth in the United States.” (CDC, 2016) The reason I am interested in this topic is for several reasons. First, it interests me because, a year -ago I lost my eighteen-year-old brother in a drunk driving accident. After his death, I became more interested and even passionate about wanting to educate minors on how to be responsible when consuming alcohol. In my research, I have discovered shocking statistics on underage drinking behaviors.

Teenage drinking has become one of the largest social issues among young people in America to this day. Although more than half of high schoolers drink on a regular basis, the problem is that they are not aware of how dangerous alcohol can actually be. The reality is that alcohol is often the cause of many problems among these teenagers. And because underage drinkers do not know the consequences alcohol ruins many young people 's lives, and is now of the most serious problems young people face. “In 2012 alone, nearly 3/4 of students (72%) have consumed alcohol (more than just a few sips) by the end of high school, and more than 1/3 (37%) have done so by 8th grade” (“11 Facts About Teens and Alcohol." 11 Facts About Teens and Alcohol. Web. 01 Mar. 2016). Not only can teenagers be peer pressured into drinking by their friends but their family and reputation may also play a major role in why they drink. Underage drinking tears apart our society and must be eradicated before it causes any more damage.

Drug addiction is a complex problem in society today. Addiction is a condition that extremely affects the person’s mind and body. Addiction also has wide sweeping effects on that person’s social connection and functioning. Unfortunately, many addicts don’t realize the social influence of their addiction until much of their functioning has greatly deteriorated.