No one wants to be the only one not participating. No one wants to be left out. So sometimes they make bad decisions like trying to use drugs,…Besides, they are curious. Adolescents are curious about having new experiences. Seeing someone doing drugs makes them more curious to know how drugs will make them feel.
In the United States today, if an individual who has the incentive to recreationally use drugs, the fact that it’s illegal inst going to stop them from getting it. If all drugs were to be made legal, not everyone would be able to purchase them, just like alcohol and tobacco. A certain age regulation would be set. Currently, drugs are available to mostly anyone who wants them; this is because they have no regulation what so ever. The public is able to buy them at their free will resulting in drugs corrupting schools and America’s youth.
We all know that kids go around our back to parties and have a few drinks with friends but not many parents will stop this. This is not good, this is what is encouraging them to be worse later on. Firstly they are testing there boundaries, which if there are none, will make them believe they can do anything and get away with it, these habits would carry on into their later years when it comes to driving and they will become reckless because they believe that they can get away with anything. Secondly we shouldn’t be encouraging underage drinking because it will inflict an addiction onto our children that is close to impossible to shake off, if the kids are getting drunk every weekend at the age of 15 or 16 imagine what would happen to those same kids at 19 or 20? Melbourne's Murdoch Children's Research institute has done a study where 1520 teenagers drinking habits have been tracked for 10 years.
Young children can be self conscious they can think, but they don’t think about thinking. Self consciousness is exacerbated by the Imaginary Audience. Teens feel that a group of people are always watching and judging them on everything that they do. When a teen feels like they are getting judge by an audience that doesn’t exist this is called Imaginary audience. Imaginary audience arises from the larger concept of adolescent egocentrism.
Hippies were the drug rebels of the Sixties, but had a semi-acceptable reason to get wasted and forget reality. They were rebelling against the Vietnam War. They believed the war was wrong and decided to go against society and the normal acceptance of the war by doing something that was not accepted, drugs. Ravers are not really standing for anything. They are just getting high to celebrate getting high or something like that.
Drinking isn’t the only way alcohol can hurt you. Sometimes you get hurt and your not even the one that’s drinking. Like for example getting hit by a drunk driver. Dare is important because it teaches kids not to drink or smoke or to do bad things. Dare is also important
Even though the use of some drugs may benefit the team as a whole, it is still against the rules and should be dealt with harshly. Most high school teams refuse to perform drug tests because they suspect athletes use drugs. This avoidance of the truth allows many athletes to get places they do not belong. Star athletes who use drugs are living a big lie - their fame and prestige are falsely
Take the legalization of medicinal Cannabis in Colorado and Washington or music stars that use drugs because they have the money and don’t have to worry about education. Kids think that they can use drugs because their idols or maybe even the government in other states says its ok. But kids need to realize that people in Colorado and Washington use medicinal Cannabis to help them with pain. Kids need different idols If theirs are using drugs. Not just the school but parents also need to tell their kids that drugs are bad and just because their friends or outside influences are using them doesn’t mean they can
Although many students rely on drugs for educational purposes, the true factor for the rapid growth amongst teen users is peer-pressure. As seen through an article that researched the use of marijuana, “Illicit drug use among teens remains high, largely due to the increasing popularity of marijuana. Among twelfth graders, 6.5 percent use marijuana on a daily basis (Drug Abuse). According to the article, the drug proliferated amongst teens due to its popularity and other students would be pressured into using marijuana. For the students that attempted to refuse to take the drug they would face feeling rejected from their peers or they would feel as if they would not be considered “cool”.
Peer pressure, curiosity, and the availability of drugs are factors that some youthful and vulnerable teenagers have to deal with in their adolescent lives. One of the significant reasons of teenage drug use is peer pressure, particularly from the social influences among friends, acquaintances, school, and the community. Depending on the person’s experiences and choices, circumstances and consequences may vary. If a teenager’s social main group is using drugs, then there may be a strong pressure due to the fact that drugs are present and can easily be offered. Also, the person might get convinced to think that there is nothing wrong with trying drugs because “everybody else is doing it.” In the effect that teenagers will try drugs just to fit in the social norms, they might do it to impress their buddies to be considered "cool" as part of being in the group and gain acceptance by friends.