Drug Case

Drug abuse has been on the rise amongst adolescents in the United States over the years, and its here to stay. The difference with drug abuse today is the accessibility of drugs in grade school and in your home. Illegal drugs are available everywhere, children are introduced to prescription drugs and illegal drugs at a young age. Teens who have used drugs at an early age are likely to become addicted to them as an adult. It is extremely important for parents to become familiar with the effects of prescription drugs and illegal substances. Teaching adolescents about these drugs might help keep teens sober and less likely to become addicts.

Studies have shown that drug abuse generally affects adolescents during major transitions in their life; the first transition of most children is when he or she leaves the comfort of their parents and begin school. After elementary school adolescents begin to experience relationships and a wide variety of people and cultures. At this age adolescents begin to take part in behaviors, which are easily influenced by peers. Most young teens exposed to drugs in school experience social, emotional, and educational challenges. They are at a higher risk of abusing alcohol and other dangerous substances. During middle school and high school there are many students who sit beside their drug dealer or experiment with prescription drugs from their parent's medicine cabinet. Prescription drugs used by anyone when not prescribed could lead to dangerous side effects.

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported children abusing drugs at ages12 and 13; this means some children begin using earlier. Most young teens that experiment with drugs are not educated about what the harmful substances do to their brain, and their life. It is important for parents and mentors to discuss the affects of marijuana, tobacco, cocaine, alcohol, and other substances your body doesn't need like those used to experience the feeling "high." Adolescents should learn that chemical substances taken orally, inhaled, smoked, or snorted through the nose could lead to addiction. When substances are abused early in age; the brain is affected in a terrible way.

When a drug is used, it enters the brain and begins to interrupt the work, and changes how the brain performs its job. The first time someone uses a chemical substance he or she experiences the feeling of being "high," an unnatural intense feeling of pleasure. There are other effects also like coughing or sore throat when smoking cigarettes, or marijuana. These feelings are caused by the change of unnatural flood of neurotransmitters, because they are receiving more dopamine. When the brain starts changing and receiving more dopamine, neurons begin to reduce dopamine receptors the cause of this is the toxic drug, it also causes the user to want more of the substance. Drug users call this a feeling of coming down. As a result of the brain changing, it causes him or her to abuse the drugs, using them compulsively, this is called addiction.

Although society wants to think that prescription drugs are legal and safe and children are out of harms way, the reality is adolescents are abusing them and have access to them while attending school. Many adolescents have taken prescription drugs to a greater extent; one commonly