Teenage Experimentation with Drugs

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This paper discusses the factors that contribute to the choice by teens to use drugs. Parental involvement and approach, peer pressure, a need to assert one's individuality and identity as well as psychological disorders are all examined as contributing factors in drug use. Current statistics of drug use in teens are provided and the relevant literature reviewed. Warning signs, high-risk behaviors and other information and suggestions for parents are included.

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"Adolescence can be described as a midpoint in ones life; when a person is neither a child nor an adult. During these years, teens go through both physical and emotional changes, which may result in confusion and frustration. Teens have passed the age when they were called kids but are not yet qualified to be responsible grownups. As is appropriate to this developmental state of life, teenagers tend to feel indestructible and immune to life's problems and tragedies. This state of feeling invincible, prevents most teenagers from linking present actions to future consequences."

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