Today’s youth, not only in West, but also in India, is getting inclined towards substance abuse more and more. Unfortunately, no strong measures are being taken in this direction, except for the production of criticizing movies like Udta Punjab, which keep getting censored more than often.
So there’s no denying that drugs consumption and substance abuse are affecting youth’s career and education to a large degree.
One reason of increasing rate of drug consumption is it being an alternative to alcohol, and that it is an easier way to say goodbye to stress, under which education system puts youth.
“Statistics show that drug abuse is a growing problem among teens. In addition to cocaine, Ecstasy and other club drugs, a recent Monitoring the Future Study showed that the top six most abused drugs by teens are: marijuana (31.5%), Vicodin (9.7%), amphetamines (8.1%), cough medicine (6.9%), sedatives & tranquilizers (6.6% each). Without treatment, the effects of drug abuse on teens can lead to serious consequences now and well into adulthood”, reports Casa Palmera.
In teenage and early twenties, people love experimentation and exploration. And these days focusing “only on studies and career” I just their thing like the earlier times. This of course, leads to serious problems (physical, mental, and social), but youth is a time when you don’t give a damn about future consequences and keep going on with their reckless attitude.
Drug abuse affect youth is the following ways:
• Behavioral problems
• Addiction and dependence
• Risky sex
• Learning problems
• Diseases
• Brain damage
