Teen Drugs Use - Social Influence

Teen Drug Use

One of the most fearful thoughts of teen’s parents is “if there teens is using drugs or not”. This concern comes with rising number of drug users. Teen drug use is an alarming problem especially in today’s high schools.

Teenager period is a road of discovering new things, trends, culture and want to be part of it. Most of the teens who try out drugs state that they just want to experience what others have done. Teens get influenced by their social circle, some want to be more popular, while some think that drugs let them think better, relaxed and stress free.

Today drugs are easily accessible and their curiosity makes them use it. Similarly peer pressure contributes highly to this growing problem. Teens get influenced by their friends around and this is the main reason why positive social gathering is essential for a teenager to remain away from drug use.

Social circle of a teen offers various influences upon them. If a teen is in a social group that uses drugs, the possibilities are greater that he/she use the drugs either from direct or indirect pressure of a group. Once a teen is offered to try drug, he/she sees it in a normal way as the social gathering around him/her are also using it and teen’s impaired judgment make him think that there is nothing wrong with it.

Now drugs are considered as a social phenomenon and every one wants to fit into it, try to look cool, special one; teens are more prone to accepting new things, so the possibility of drug use is high.

Teens imitate things from their elders whether they smoke or use alcohol. But teens’ limited thinking let them fall to the prey. Stressful and depressed teens use drugs to escape from the problem, which in fact just fade out or simply hide feelings and problems, but the problems remain intact.

Parents who are concern about their teen should monitor their teens periodically and any illogical or sudden changes in moods or behavior should be intervening before teens get addicted to the drug use. Parents who don’t take early action are either unaware of the consequences of this problem or they are just pretending that a problem will go away with time. But the risks associated with teen drug use are large, so early intervention is not only necessary but inevitable.