Peers talk about their drug experiences as being "cool" and if you havent experinced it yourself many feel out side of the circle. Many teens who try drugs for the first time are pressured into it. A lot of the time the teen may have no intention of trying a drug but feel
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. Another reason is simple curiosity. Many teens have heard about drugs, and they are curious to experience them for themselves. They have heard that drugs can be fun, or make a person feel and act
These images of celebrities drunkenly spilling out of nightclubs are every where and they’re making binge drinking look glamorous for teens. These celebrities get drunk and do drugs and this behavior is advertised throughout the media. This type of behavior influences teens widely and can be very harmful to teens as these celebrities behaviors rub off on teens. Teens may be lead to think that it’s normal to drink like this as their favorite celebrity does this and they’re beautiful and famous. This causes teens to turn to drinking as teens think this is cool and think this can help them fit in and be accepted by their peers.
Cameron Williams 11 April 2011 4th Hour Ms. Mason Music Affect on Teens The negative effects that music can have on teens are that it encourages sexual activity, causes hearing loss, and encourages violence, but positive effect that music can have on teens is that it can help them concentrate, it can help them have a positive mind and can help them do better in school. During teenage years, teens use music as an escape to their problem. But music can affect teenager’s life in a negative way, like causing them to go to jail, or even death, or in positive ways like causing them to become good writers, or entertaining them. Teens listen to different songs with different messages, some good, and some bad. It depends how the teen react to the music.
It is good to know that there are effective treatment programs out there that can help handle people’s addiction. Some of the media out there does promote drug abuse. It makes us feel that we have to look and act a certain way and most teens often fall into the trap and find themselves under pressure. This leads to finding ways to numb their pain and often it is the illegal and/or legal drugs which come to their aid faster then their family. I believe drug use is a social
There are many cases of drugs abuse happened recently in our environment either it is exposed or unexposed one. Teenagers, is one of them who have done it. Just like Laurie Wilmot, LCSW, a therapist at a therapeutic wilderness programme for troubled teens, who has worked with adolescents with drug or alcohol problems for years, explained that there are some reasons why teenagers use drugs. First, they use drug to get some sort of pay-off, whether getting high helps them fit in. Second, by using drugs, they can be more confident to approach the opposite sex and the last one is that by using drugs teenagers can escape their problems as it helps them to solve problems.
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”.
Gang members also bribe young teens with alcohol and drugs. When they use this method, most teens feel cool and get hooked from this point. This is why they need to be controlled better because they affect our youth in a drastic
Imaginary audience arises from the larger concept of adolescent egocentrism. Teens will feel that the imaginary audience is always commenting and judging them, teens at times can get caught up in their imagination and consider themselves “celebrities” but no one is actually watching them. The adolescent get so caught up in their imagination, that they develop a mood for their “audience”. The mood that the “audience” usually has is the attitude that the teen has that day for example if the teen feels self conscious than the “audience” is going to be judgmental. Children in childhood have imaginary friends, and they do believe that “others see what they see, know what they know, hear what they
I think these adverts are relevant to teenagers. Teenagers are at the age where they start experimenting with substances like alcohol. As they are teenagers they are not yet as responsible as may be adults in the way that they are not as equipped or experienced to always make the correct choices. They are also constantly under peer pressure and they might not know when enough is enough. This may cause them to land up being in a situation like the one presented in the two adverts.