The Effects Of Substance Abuse Among Adolescents

Attitudinal variances were studied in intuitive processing, in the framework of an optical search assignment. Aims: The aim of the study was to recapitulate outcomes of recent epidemiological research on adolescent alcohol use and its consequences, to summarize the risk factors for drinking in adolescents and to reflect operative preventative interferences. Methods: A literature review of pertinent studies on adolescent alcohol use. Alcohol use and other risk-taking behaviors develop in adolescence and incline to cluster together. Alcohol consumption in adolescence appears to persevere into adulthood and is allied with alcohol problems, including dependence, premature death and diminished work capacity. Early documentation of adolescent risk factors may be helpful in preventing and/or diminishing risk. Attitudinal differences are to be altered by these consequences. Conclusion: There is a need for loftier long-standing imminent group revisions to investigate the long-term magnitudes of adolescent drinking and supplementary effort is needed to identify the most operative interference tactics.

The Ethical and legal considerations set to help substance abuse counselors as they journey through their profession can serve as a bible for me. These ethics and laws help counselors to make appropriate decisions when it comes to helping others. Addiction professionals will uphold the legal and ethical standards of the profession by being fully aware of all federal laws and laws that govern practice of substance use disorder counseling

Substance abuse is one of the major issues affecting the community since many young people are either involved in the use of illicit drugs or the illicit use of legitimate drugs. As a result of this pressing issue, it's important for various stakeholders to be actively involved in helping young people involved in substance abuse. The involvement of community members and leaders in fighting substance abuse is also fueled by the fact that drug abuse is a problem that can be dealt with effectively at the community level. The involvement of these stakeholders is through developing and implementing substance abuse programs that are relevant.

Hannah is a fifteen year old girl who was recently sent to a rehabilitation center for the result of abuse of prescription medication. 6.1 million high school students currently use addictive substances, and like Hannah, 1 in 3 of them are addicted (“National Study Reveals,”2011). Although the number of teens using these drugs are decreasing, the numbers are still dangerously high. Due to it’s high risk of addiction, dangerous consequences, and growing availability, substance abuse among teenagers is a serious trend being presented among all United States adolescence.

(maintained abstinence/sobriety for than twelve months), or is in a controlled environment, such as a treatment facility, where access to alcohol is restricted (American Psychiatric Association, 2013, p. 491). Individuals presenting two or three symptoms are considered to have a mild severity disorder, those who present four or five symptoms are considered to have a moderate severity disorder, and individuals presenting with six or more symptoms are considered to have a severe disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 2013, p. 491). These criteria help care providers diagnose alcohol use disorder among a variety of populations, including adolescents, and are similar to the other substance use disorder criteria that are listed in the

substance it can lead to impairment or distress in many different ways such as, “recurrent substance use resulting in a failure to fulfill major role obligations at work, school, or home, recurrent substance use in situations in which it is physically hazardous, recurrent substance-related legal problems, continued substance use despite having persistent or recurrent social or interpersonal problems caused or exacerbated by the effects of the substance” (Susic, 2007). According to the Foster Care Club, there are precisely 415,129 children who are in the foster care system. Since there are so many children in the system, it is hard to diagnose every child who is abusing substances. When a foster parent brings a child into their home, it is hard to tell that they are abusing substances because the family may think they are just trying to adapt to their new environment. The family might also think that the child is acting out because they do not want to be in the system and just want to be with their actual parents.

According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2014, two-thirds of adolescents 12 or older reported that they drank alcohol in the past year, with 6.4% meeting criteria for an alcohol use disorder.

The author of this book believes that adolescents who abuse drugs and alcohol are doing four things: exploring their pain, medicating their pain, revealing their pain, and getting treatment for their pain.

Substance abuse and addictions among adolescence is a problem among this age group. Adolescents go through major stages in life and are faced with stressful issues that can lead to experimenting with drugs. Experimenting with drugs can lead to for an adolescent to abuse the substance as well becoming addicted. Not only can a adolescent can become addicted to a substance but he or she can have issues with the brain developing properly. Spiritual development can help prevent as well help over come the influences of substance abuse.

Substance abuse has been a big problem not only in our society but also to the families affected by it. According to Crosson-Tower “Over 13 million children live with a parent who has used illicit and addictive drugs…” (Crosson-Tower, 2004, pp. 97-98). Children are like sponges they learn and copy what they see and experience. According to Bernard, et al “Through our primary caregivers we learn to understand and make sense of the world” (Bernard, et al., 2006, p. 80). Therefore, exposing young children to substance use and abuse can greatly affect them. Children who grew up with parents who are substance abuser have a higher risk of using and abusing drugs themselves. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) “ a growing percentage of students in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades are using marijuana on a regular basis, according to the 2010 Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey” (NIDA, 2011). Moreover, the use of ecstasy among 8th and 10th graders has increased. Among 8th graders ecstasy use rate rose from 1.3 percent in 2009 to 2.4 percent in 2010 and among 10th grader from 3.7 percent to 4.7 percent (NIDA, 2011).

Through the years you can see why drug and alcohol abuse has been a debatable topic for many people, and how to help prevent it. Since teens have been using drugs and alcohol to turn to for help, it’s time to help them out. Now that we’ve all been informed about what it does to your body, how to help prevent it, and what else addictions can do,lets go help teens, and lower the amount of teens addicted to some type of substance. Be there and help lead the movement to a teen substance free

The abuse of alcohol and other substances has been an ongoing global epidemic amongst individuals of all ages, but mostly adolescents. This paper discusses the risk factors that an adolescent faces that end up pushing them to opioid use and addiction. It is a review of studies done in the past 5 years (2009-2014) on how big an impact domestic factors can have on an individual’s life. The various types of factors will be discussed, the affect a family members drug use can have on the rest of the household, how the closeness of a relationships within the family can impact the drug use, and the different types of drugs that can be obtained. It will also review the correlation between substance abuse and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Substance abuse is the excessive absorption or use of a drug or multiple drugs. Many teens try alcohol, tobacco, or other recreational drugs for fun and other purposes rather than medical purposes such as marijuana, ecstasy, and cocaine. Some teens try these substances only a few times and end up not being able to control their cravings for them because they are extremely addictive. The use of drugs among teens, especially the illegal ones, are due to peer pressure, the media and television, imitation of adult role models, the need to be accepted by the society, and stress. Substance abuse can lead to serious problems such as performing poorly in school, loss of family and friends, family problems, and lasting legal issues. Alcohol and drug abuse is a leading cause of teen death and injury related to car crashes, suicides, and violence. Conventional drugs, these days, are easy to get since a huge number of our population use them. Therefore, teens are involved in the usage of drugs and substance abuse because they have easy access to them.

As a part of my first year seminar class I was required to participate in Fall Palooza. Fall Palooza is considered an ALE (applied learning experience). Fall Palooza is a health fair put on by staff and students in pre nursing. It is meant to spread awareness about prominent issues in our society, including substance abuse. Substance abuse is even more prominent in adolescents (aka college students). In fact according to Sharma(2015)“ 70.8% of students had ever drunk alcohol; 38.7% reported current alcohol use; 21.9% of students engaged in binge drinking; …….and 3.8% of students had ever used methamphetamines .  All these statistics point to the growing epidemic of substance abuse among adolescents.”(pg. 3). This topic was the one given to my class. After hearing what our class topic was my group decided to chose alcohol abuse. After lots of research and brainstorming my group knew how we were going to set up our Fall Palooza booth. We were going to make a game called fact pong. A play on the commonly known game, beer pong. Our game however would have cups filled with water instead of beer and contain a fact about alcohol abuse. Facts that pertain to college students such as “44% of students attending 4-year universities engaged in binge drinking (defined as 4 or more drinks in a row for women or 5 or more drinks in a row for men)”(Champion, Lewis, & Meyers, 2015, pg 58). Every Time someone made a shot they would match a number on the cup to a corresponding facts. The facts

The early adolescence stage is an important developmental period where adolescence take part in risk behavioral activities such as substance use. Research supports the hypothesis that alcohol and substance use serve to reduce negative effects (Thomas, 1986). According to Galea et al., (2005), “psychological stress associated with living in urban areas with high income disparity may be associated with greater inter-individual tension and likelihood of inner-personal violence; both may be associated with increased substance use and misuse through stress processes” (p. 130). Stressful life experiences leads adolescents experiencing higher levels of negative effects to become more prone in participating with substance use. Such consideration leads to