As a result, the problem of alcohol abuse and drinking deaths become graver among college students. Aside from lack of education, Mindy Sink seems to neglect the problem of peer pressure in her article. The influence of peer pressure is strong especially when people are still in their adolescence. Influences of peers may worsen the problem of alcohol abuse. Erik Erikson is a psychoanalyst whose eight developmental stages are very famous.
Some common characteristics of an alcoholic may include: their drinking interferes with their family; their interpersonal relationships, the family’s well being. They exhibit poor responsible behavior they crave drinking because of a psychological and or physiological addiction, they show a loss of control pertaining to drinking. [1] Alcoholism is one of the most common disorders in the world today, and has been for some time. The effects of alcohol to the brain are mind altering. In Maria Gifford’s book titled, Alcoholism, she states quite simply why people drink despite all the dangers, “Drinking makes many people feel good”(Gifford, 14).
She also explains the characteristics of kinship, melancholy subjectivity, depression, and life. Everyone has their different reason as to why they use heroin but after a while all feeually have severe withdrawals; especially of they are heavy users. Cold sweats, pain in the body, raging emotions and even physical sickness are a few symptoms of these people. Medications that were administered seemed to work most of the time. A lot of patients lose a reason or faith to get clean, The desire to become clean soon fades with some addicts; and this can occur for different reasons.
In the documentary they also displayed the terrible Columbine shooting that occurred in which two teens took many lives and one of them was on prescription drugs as well. It’s just crazy; I don’t think that just because a child is displaying acts of being hyper or just being a kid should not mean that they should be labeled as a child with ADD or ADHD and pretty much force them to take these drugs that have extreme side effects. The Neurologist Fred Baugman even said himself how frightening it is that kids those days were easily diagnosed with ADHD especially by school
Bored Teens More Likely to Drink, Take Drugs Boredom can be a dangerous thing, particularly for impressionable teenagers who are full of energy and looking for things to keep them occupied nearly every waking hour of each day. It should not be very surprising, then, to discover that boredom is a risk factor for alcohol and drug use among teens and young adults. But teens are the only ones for whom boredom can cause problems. Being bored is also a contributing factor to excessive drug and alcohol use among adults, and it is a leading cause of relapse among adults who are recovering addicts. For the most part, though, boredom is a more serious issue for teenagers because they are more likely to find themselves with larger chunks of time in which they have absolutely nothing to do.
Drug Use Did you know that on average males between the age of 12 and 19 are most likely to become addicted to drugs? For the most part drug users come from a background where one or even both parents are users. The statistics of drug use and addiction are sad, but just ever growing. This is a topic that will continue to be a growing problem. We need to remember though, we can do something about it, and we can help prevent it.
Throughout the book depression is a big issue for Holden. It has also become an issue for American teenagers. Depression brings up the thought of suicide, which also seems to be a problem with American teens. A number of times throughout the book Holden has even said how depressing certain situations where. It has been said that when hearing about depressing or sad things it makes others sad or depressed as well.
The most noticeable for moment displaying how serious their drug addictions were was when I witnessed Brenda going through a withdrawal because her body was craving the drug. Seeing her inject drugs into her body is still difficult to process in my mind. Watching Dicky was equally as sad because of the possible career he threw away because of a drug addiction. All three people have very sad stories. Unfortunately Brenda passed away and Boo Boo still supports his drug addiction by stealing.
Cocaine is addictive it interferes with the way your brain processes that create feelings of pleasure, so you need more and more of the drug just to feel normal at the time. People who become addicted to cocaine start to lose interest in other areas of their life, like school, friends,
It will control the drugs that is being passed to them to try, if we quit interfering with the law and let them do what is right, many law enforcement tried a curfew for the teens but the parents interfere, and things went back to the way they were. Parents today are blaming others for their child being on drugs. For many years we have been fighting drugs. We may be too late for the drug trafficking but; we are not too late to keep it from our future generation (our children). We must educate our kids on drugs and how drugs can affect their life.