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=** The Beginning **=

Your a teenager it is a saturday night and you arrive at the crazy party that everyone will be talking about the next day. You step in the door and immedietly are confronted with someone doing some type of a drug. You jump in thinking that you could make new friends and it will only be one time and it won't hurt anything. Before you know it your doing it every weekend or every day. 30.3 percent of teens in 8th grade are drug users, 44.9 percent in 10th grade and 52.8 in 12th (Troubling Teen Drug Use Statistics). Teens think that they are invicible and nothing could stop them. Kids don't relaize the harm of abusing drugs could really do to them. Teens take drugs not expeciting to get a substance abuse problem, and while most teens see their drug use as a casual way to have fun, there are negative effects that are a result of this use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs (Teens and Addiction).

=Background Information=

Beginning in the early 90's, illicit drug use amont junior and high school aged students rose dramatically, more than doubling among 8th graders, according to the annual MTF survey (Hurley). Many teens from 8th grade to 12th grade have reported either seeing drugs being used around or during school, and drugs being sold around or during school. In 2002 teenage drug abuse droped very slightly but not enough to make an impact on other teens (Troubled Teens). Mariijuana is the leading drug abused by teenagers, out of the teens that abuse drugs 75% ofthem are users to marijuana (Troubled teens). Teens after Marijuana open there drug abuse to cocaine. Teen drug abuse tends to ruin lives for people. This hard subject to help treat. Many teenagers think to themselves that they don't care what their parents think or what they're doing because they are doing drugs for a specific reason to make them feel better or to get away from the life of their parents. Teens tend to lose their friends, lose connection with their family and ruin their grades in school which hurts them in the long run in life. = = = = = = = = = = = = =Negative Effects on Teens=

Most teens who abuse any sort of drug end up [|losing their friends.] --Health problems start to occur (Teens and Addiction). --School problems, failing grades, not doing homework etc (Teens and Addicion). --Teens start to expierence memory loss (Teens and Addiction). --Loss of motivation (Teens and Addiction). --Negative behavior comes out afecting friends and family (Teens and Addiction). --Unpredictable emotional swings (Teens and Addiction). These effects done seem bad in the teenagers mind. Drugs make the teenagers feel better so they are not worrying about what is going on with themselves.

=Drugs Abused by Teens= -alcohol -Marijuana -tobacoo -Cold Medications ([|Benadryl], Sudafed) (Teen Drug Abuse). -Inhalants -Depressents (Teens Drug Abuse) -Stimulants -Narcotics (Teens Drug Abuse) -Hallucinogens -Club drugs ([|Extasy] ) (Teens Drug Abuse)

=How To Treat Drug Abuse= The sooner you can recognize that your child or your friend is abusing alcohol or other drugs, the sooner you can seek help. A way to tell if your teen is a user of drugs or abuses them there are different signs to take notice of. Red watery eyes, depression, dropping of grades, hanging around with a different bunch of kids, overall attitude changes and mood swings. If your a teen concerned about your own drug abuse a parent is probably the last person you would want to talk to for help. Although your parents could help you find a [|treatment program] (Teens and Addiction). If you know someone with a drug abuse problem, constantly talk to them about it and convince them to go get help. The chances of a teen treating himself for his own drug abuse is very low. So teens could either get help from an adult, talk to their family, or receive medical help if trully needed.

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=Conclusion= = = In conclusion to everything you learned in the above information, teenage drug abuse is not a joke. Millions of teenagers have died from abusing drugs to much. Drug abuse is rapidly affecting teenagers and nobody is taking time and noticing the major effects it is having on everyone. As quick as possible help anybody you can with their drug problems. Do what you could to make them stop and bring them to treatment programs. Here are some treatment programs for drugs.

[|Substance Abuse Treatment] [|Drug Rehab] [|Drug Addiction] [|Drug and Alcohol Rehab]

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