One cause of hooking-up could be because of stress. College students are put through a lot of hard work in the years they are in school. People may just want to release stress from their bodies in a sexual way. It will make them feel better and boost their mood in the moment. Releasing stress in a sexual manner can also make them forget about all the stressful things such as, study for a huge test they have coming up or not stressing over if they will pass a certain class.
Drug testing of high school athletes has a negative impact on the classrooms, it punishes innocent students, and it can sometimes be completely useless when students know how to outsmart the test. Therefore in summary, drug testing penalizes student athletes more than it helps them. Drug testing of high school athletes has a
I CAN’T PAY ATTENTION!! Maintaining good grades is a very common academic goal on a college campus among students. With rigorous social lives as well as very demanding workloads, grades have the potential to drop. To aid against lowering grades and to help weaken the workload, college students have resorted to the illegal use of prescription stimulants. The stimulants aid in the maintenance of good grades, but put the users at risk.
In the most recent years the use of Marijuana has taken its toll in the world. Many people look down on smoking Marijuana while other advocate that it's no more harmful than alcohol or nicatine. Which comes to the argument of is Marijuana addicting, or is it in the hands of the user. In the Article "Marijuana Is Not Addictive, By Paul Armentano". Armentano compares being addicting to Marijuana is the same as being addicted to caffeine.
Adolescents require at least as much as they did as children generally 8 and a half each night" A person that's exhausted, can be very dangerous when out in a serious situation such as driving. "Drowsiness can even be deadly if sleepy teens choose to drive, according to the national highway traffic safety administration, over 100,000 sleepy drivers cause traffic accidents each year" . After school, most kids just want to go out and have fun, and sometimes what they consider fun is bad. "Later school times will mean kids will leave school later, thus keeping many youngsters off the streets before their parents get home. Juvenile crime is highest between 3 pm and 7 pm because kids are out of school" later school times ill prevent juvenile crime.
Smoking marijuana has been known to affect the way a person think, feels, and act. Many users’ lose interest in life and become very lazy. People who use marijuana often find it very difficult to concentrate on anything more challenging than television. Marijuana causes a decreased attention span and feelings of isolation. High school and college students who are regular users of marijuana find themselves to be struggling with inner turmoil; feeling depressed, scared, and often suffers from very low self-esteem.
Students who do go to a therapist blame their drinking habits on academic pressures and peer pressures. Still schools are finding that there is no quick way to control drinking within their
Faking ADHD Are you feeling unfocused in school? That’s how a lot of college students feel or at least say that they feel. Young adults in college have been faking ADHD to obtain the prescribed medicine Adderall. Others who haven’t gone through that process have been simply buying the pills from the people who have obtained it. These students feel they need a mental edge to help them study and take tests and these pills allow for that.
English 100 May 6, 2008 Prescribed Addiction The persistent problem with the addiction and misuse of prescription drugs is affecting the way people live on a daily basis. One problem that is not helping with this rising epidemic of the abuse of prescription drugs is the availability of these types of drugs. Addiction to some types of prescription drugs can begin unintentionally after being prescribed the drug. Due to the major problem with illicit drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and crack, prescription drug abuse has not been looked at as a major priority in our society. There is promotion of prescription drug abuse among the youth figures in our society, due to the pressures to be successful in school.
The national government promotes the “Above the Influence” campaign, which researchers have determined that students may get the wrong impression from. They discovered that since the implementation of the campaign, students are more likely to believe that their peers are using drugs, which makes them more likely to experiment with them. (Teen) While this is not the desired outcome of this government based campaign this is the result it is having on some students. To me it seems pointless to spend the government’s money on programs that do not get the intended