Drug Addiction

            In our generation today, drugs is common to us especially teenagers. Some know this because of his/her own experience or based on their friends or in the community that drug use is very common. Drug addiction is a problem that has been increasing immensely among our society today. Drug addictions can only hinder or restrain us from accomplishing goals or dreams in life. People sometimes feel they are too bright, too powerful, too much in control to become addictive. Addiction can trap anyone. It can lead to harming ones body, causing problems in family structure, and contribute to the delinquency in society. There are two types of drugs; the good drugs that can help our body  or the legal drugs that are used as medicines, such as prescription drugs or over-the-counter drugs and the bad drugs that has negative effects on a person’s body.  These are illegal drugs that you are not supposed to use, buy, or sell. The bad drugs or the illegal drugs are the reason why many have turn into a drug addicts.

            By consummating these kind of  bad drugs the body can get very active and some can withstand to stay very late at night and will survive if the body is not well fed. It also affects mental health, that if cannot consummate these drugs the body will keep looking and will be longing for it. An addiction to illicit drugs changes the way a person’s brain works, and consequently, the way they think and act.

            We are greatly influenced by the people around us. Today one of the number one reasons of teenage drug usage is peer pressure. Peer pressure represents social influences that affect us. It can have a positive or a negative effect, depending on what path one follows. There is direct and indirect pressure that might influence a person's decision in using drugs. Direct pressure might be when a person is offered to try drugs. Indirect pressure might be when a person is around people using drugs and sees that there is nothing wrong with using drugs. Adolescents who use drugs seek out peers who also use and, in turn, are influenced by those peers . A person might also try drugs just to fit in a social group, even if the person had no intentions of using drugs. Adolescents can try out different roles and observe the reactions of their friends to their behavior and their appearance . One might do it just to be considered "cool" by the group.

           To teenagers out there do not try to get yourself involve in this stuff, it is not really a cool thing or idea in getting yourself in. Yes, it is true that we are greatly influenced by the people around us, so the best thing that you can do is to choose your friends wisely and do not let your curiosity drive you into involving in this stuff, remember, once tasted forever wanted. And it can destroys your life completely.