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Essay Drug Usage In Today's Youth
Today's teenagers cry out incessantly for their personal freedom but have thrown their responsibilities as well as their right to these personal freedoms out the window with their increasing turn towards drugs. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in 1997, nearly fifty percent of high school seniors have used marijuana. i This is a shocking statistic. However, it not as shocking as the fact that this percentage has been on a steady increase since 1992 and has shown no sign of leveling out any time soon. The youth of today have not only started to use illicit drugs in more frequently, but drugs are reaching a greater number of adolescents and teenagers each year. One big problem…show more content…
With this attitude of teenagers that drug use is not a lack of responsibility, far too many teenagers using illicit drugs with the idea that nothing is wrong. This ignorance about drugs is causing a great decline in many aspects of today's society. Another problem with the drug use by today's youth is that it is considerably more dangerous than the drug use of the youth of the sixties drug use for two main reasons. One problem is that the potency of drugs is a great deal higher than it was in the sixties. Since the sixties there have been a lot of great advances in farming and in science that have brought us much greater medicine and food. The problem is they have given us much more potent and much more dangerous drugs. ii A second problem is that, as stated before, drugs aren't looked down upon. They are no longer used as social rebellion, as in the sixties; they are used as entertainment. This misuse of drugs and the new purity of drugs today add more problems. One problem is that heroine is gaining popularity because of its purity. Its purity has risen from four percent to sixty percent and no longer needs to be injected; it can simply be inhaled. Now that drug users are no longer worried about the contraction of sexually transmitted diseases from contaminated needles, heroine is becoming the drug of choice..