TEENS WITH ABUSE AND ADDICTION OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL
Summary
Teenagers get high risk from abusing substances which range from exchange prescription drugs to street drugs to similarity to alcohol. The teen’s life will go on with addiction and abusing the drug and alcohol very drastic. If they are abusing a drug and alcohol they will exposure to fatal and possibility to have more short lived experience. Nowadays, there are many factor to encourage the teenagers from abuse and addicted to drug and alcohol. Peer pressure can be explain from all teens have their own friend either at school or college, so as a teens they feel down if they do not try what their friend do. Therefore, to avoid being condemned by their friends they try to impress with try to the new things that they never do before. Teenagers also have one habit that they really want to exhibit to others that they are as adult and feel very independent to grown up and make their own decision. They also really want determinates to be treated as they want appropriate with their age. Next, exposure to family members either parents or siblings who are trapped for the drug and alcohol abuse to treat or eliminate the pain can cause a teen follow the same action. Sometimes if parents use this to control their pain until it is regular habit it will cause very high possibilities their children will do the same. Hence, teens have their values from parents and other adult influences and often follow or imitate what they see. Besides, curiosities among the teens encourage them to drug and alcohol abuse because they are curious about having new experiences. When they are seeing someone doing drugs and alcohol either in front of them or only watching at the television make them more curious to know how drug working if they try to use the drug and alcohol. Furthermore, teens that are uses comforting to consider an undiscovered their mental and healthy condition can be define as self medication. One of the ways to treat this undiscovered outcome by using drug and alcohol so they feel permanent release. The teen is able to use drug and alcohol to get temporary release from this problem. Next, from the rebellion or revolt among the teens contribute to the cause teens trapped into this drug and alcohols abuse. It is because they do not feel comfortable when their parents try to control their daily activities then make their own self to be revolt. As a teens they only think that they want to enjoy and having fun every day of their adolescence. If they are very enjoying with their life actually they are very highest potential to get into drug and alcohol.
Introduction
The article entitle “Teens with abuse and addiction of drug and alcohol” is written by Marcel O. Bonn-Miller. He is the Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He is from Columbus, Ohio. This article is publishing at Thought Catalog on April 13, 2015 the writer is focusing about how teenagers can involve in drugs and alcohol. The writer has lists 7 cause for this issue for teenagers. Basically drug and alcohol are very importance issues among the teenagers because statistics shows that percent of teenagers involved in this immoral issue are in the high level. This article shows many types of factor comes from any source whether form their own self, family or parents, friends and environment. This all types of factor abuse drug and alcohol among teenagers give awareness to reader about their responsibilities to reduce number of teenagers involve and consumed the drug and alcohol in their daily life.
CRITIQUES
Teenagers always spent time with their friend. They will meet at school or hanging out together. Peer pressure can be defined as direct influence on people by peers, or an individual who gets encouraged to follow their peers by changing their attitudes, values, or behaviors to conform to those of the influencing group or individual. We can say this might be the biggest factor in this drugs and alcohol problem among teenagers. In this issue, we agree that friend can affect teen behavior. They should choose the right friend, so that they will not effect by bad behavior. Otherwise parents need to know types of their children’s friends.
Secondly is feeling growing up. Teenagers always want to be treating like adult or try to act like them. But they are still cannot decide whether that things will give benefits toward them or not until they had been trapped with this drugs and alcohol abuse. Therefore, teenagers should not let themselves exposes to this unhealthy activity while everyone know that this stuff are have very dangerous effect not only for teenagers but towards others. Actually, using drugs are did not show that someone are matured enough to look like adult and very proud because of the drug. They just destroy their own future very well because the effects of drug are very dangerous and serious.
Thirdly, teenager’s potential to follow their parent’s habit which is taken the drug and alcohol in front of their children. Parents are the people who are should be much closer towards teenager compare of their friends. Therefore parents are the role model for teenagers and they should shows a good behaviors and attitude to their children since they were kids. So if there are parents who are taking drugs should stop immediately their habits because it is may harm and bad risk to the kids not from they are babies but will effect parents genetic mutation. Children just act like sponge, they will absorb and copy what their parents do in front of them. So, as parents they should show the good behavior and be a role model for their own children to have one happy family with a good health.
In addition, adolescence can be defined as life is meant to be a time to search and discovery the world at this level of age. All teenagers are life with very curiously to try something different that they do before up to this level. But, to try drugs and alcohol should be a very big mistake that they have been done in their whole life in their adolescence. It will start from just to attempt the drugs and alcohol and know how the drug and alcohol working toward their body and feel does. If they are not control the dose of talking drug and alcohol, they will be addicted with this drug and need to be detained at rehab for certain time depends on the dose they take. It can be effected their own future to further study in higher level.
Furthermore, adolescence is the time when all the teenagers are struggling with their life, education, friends, family and love. At this level of age, they are very easy to feel depressed by being sad within their problems which are sometimes the small problem only. So, for there are those drugs and alcohol will help them at least to forget and release their problem for a moment or we can call it as self-medicate. Consume drugs and alcohols are not a right choice and decision to handle the problem that they face. They should share or talk with someone about their problem for example they have to share the problem with person that they believe one which is parents. Teenagers cannot take an action to run away or try to forget the problems because it is not the best solutions cause it may depress their self. The problem should be solved wisely with get many of opinion from parents or friends.
Next, many of teenagers will act revolt because they do not want their parents try to control their life and daily activities. They think that this is the suitable time they try to be in depended to them. They also want to make their own decision without thinks about the risk and harmful for their own. Rarely, they will listen towards their own parent’s advice then they will take an action to show the bad behavior or rebel with parents and society who try to control them. They are really doing not want to be controlled and follow the any rules. Like the lyrics from MCR-teenagers “They could care less as long as someone will bleed so darken your clothes or strike a violent pose. Maybe they’ll leave you alone, but not me” it tell people that teens will be together to show their new self and they are not worried to get hurt.
Lastly, teenagers will always hanging out and enjoy with their friends to fulfils adolescence. Every teenager wants to have fun, but they need to choose the right way. They should not try to involve the drugs and alcohol in the party or when they are went for outing with friends. Teenagers are usually having a party to celebrate any single things that makes them happy about all over the night. But to having more fun in their party, they will try the drugs and alcohol. But, they forget that there are lots of others ways to having fun together with friends. Recently, we are already know and remind about the news which is when someone just died because he are overdose for drugs or accident when the driver are drunk. This situation should be very wary by teens for those who are always used drugs and drunk. We are very hopefully that all teenagers gain some awareness about the negative effect if they are exposure to the drug and alcohol.
CONCLUSION / RECOMMENDATION
Therefore we can conclude, all the parties play their main role to prevent or control drugs and alcohol abuse among the teenagers before it become worse and harm at high risk to others. The example of main role is parents because the most important is to observe the child’s behavior and care about their best friends either at school or residential area. As parents, they need to give some advice wisely to show their children about the awareness exposure dangers of drugs and alcohol. Besides, teachers through the school activities can also provide counseling session for students who were at risk or have been stuck with this addiction symptom of the drug and alcohol. In addition, the government also needs play their role by giving a talk about the disadvantages of drugs and alcohol to the teenagers so they will free from the symptom immoral. Then, the community of the neighbors should be concerned about their neighborhood to keep their environment are clean from the teenagers that involved in drugs and alcohol. Finally, the most important thing is their self. They should create awareness of themselves on this issue so that they can control and keep away from these immoral things and people who are consume drugs and alcohol. They also can give advice to their peers in order to stop from abuse of drugs and alcohol. Therefore, some teens are more comfortable and easy to accept the advice by listen the advice from their friend who had grown up with them. This is can be a very good idea to make our society in the clean environment of the person who consume drug and alcohol until they get addicted.