Why do teens abuse drugs?

[gilerboy]

Im doing a research project on drug abuse. So... What are some of the reasons teens abuse drugs?

[Sarah900]

I've done a fair amount of drugs and getting to know some of the people I was doing them with,I found that alot do it to cope, one of my friends was extremly depressed and found drugs as an "escape"...
- Sarah

[Unregistered]

#1. peer pressure is the biggest influence on a teen. the cause is most likely that the teen has been pressured into the drug by a person who has a real problem. some of these problems include.

#1. to get away from reality. being a teen is really hard becuase your being introduced to the real world. some people can find a real escape in drugs

#. to get messed up

#3. ignorance

#4. idiocy

[Unregistered]

depression is the underlying cause of tobacco smoking,alcohol abuse and drug taking.the commonest cause of depression by far is physical abuse by unloving parents.a subsidiary cause may be bereavement of a parent in the childs early life.this would include abandonment by a parent,too. but the main cause remains unloving neglectful and abusive parents.i am unable to comment further because i do not know your circumstances or motives for asking.

[Unregistered]

ok by "abuse" do you just mean use? and what kind of drugs are you talking about? you cant just lump them all into one category "drugs"

people(not just teenagers) use drugs because theyre fun, and sometimes addictive.

[Unregistered]

i didnt apply the term "abuse"to drugs,but to children.perhaps you think we should refer to not to "child abuse" but to "child use".read it again.you may think you do not abuse drugs but they will probably abuse you.,and those who,for the moment,love you.ask the adult child of an alcoholic if it was use or abuse.ask the fetal alcohol syndrome child,if you can make him concentrate long enough ,if it was use or abuse.ask the child affected similarly in the womb by any number of street drugs ,perhaps before his mother thought she could be pregnant,if she is amused by your hair splitting word games.perhaps you are such a victim yourself. they often develop special relationships with the substances which did them harm.,and poor educational attainment, which is what you are exhibiting here,is a common characteristic of the crippled survivors of pre- natal child abuse.think harder.

[Thaum]

do not write a research project on that subject unless you already have your own questions regarding it. you should understand it a little if youre going to do a project on it

[Thaum]

And to the two people talking to him like psychologists, you are crystallized intellects, really.

[Unregistered]

i didnt apply the term "abuse"to drugs,but to children.perhaps you think we should refer to not to "child abuse" but to "child use".read it again.you may think you do not abuse drugs but they will probably abuse you.,and those who,for the moment,love you.ask the adult child of an alcoholic if it was use or abuse.ask the fetal alcohol syndrome child,if you can make him concentrate long enough ,if it was use or abuse.ask the child affected similarly in the womb by any number of street drugs ,perhaps before his mother thought she could be pregnant,if she is amused by your hair splitting word games.perhaps you are such a victim yourself. they often develop special relationships with the substances which did them harm.,and poor educational attainment, which is what you are exhibiting here,is a common characteristic of the crippled survivors of pre- natal child abuse.think harder.

I honestly hope that you aren't serious. Because, although I understand and sympathise with your defense of these abused children, he was asking 'gilerboy' (who originally posed the question) to clarify himself. Moron.

[Unregistered]

another reason would be because they dont read.a little reading can save a lot of suffering.cigarette smoking also,acts to legitimise other drugs.though it is actually --probably--more dangerous than all the rest put together.(perhaps excluding alcohol which destroys across generations) even heroin,the big adult terror,spontaneously remits in many cases after a decade or so .tobacco gives no second chances.the contributor who mentioned the connection between child abuse and addiction is spot on. the nature of the intervening processes is not entirely understood,and i have noted that it is frowned upon to think too clearly here,so i will confine myself to the obvious observation that the genuinely loved child will tend to be content with his state of mind.this is why the parents of addicts protest innocent incomprehension;in most cases i think they have a pretty good idea why junior has a needle in his arm.they just dont want it to come out.if we are going to mitigate this problem it will need to be done by thinking,therefore it seems odd to me to condemn a contribution because of intellect."cool"perhaps,but still odd. i think daddy cool feels his control slipping,or maybe there is a child involved there also.