Today's essay topic: *People in all modern societies use drugs, but today's youth are experimenting with both legal and illegal drugs, and at an increasingly early age. Some sociologists claim that parents and other members of society often set a bad example. Discuss the causes and some effects of widespread drug use by young people in modern day society. Make any recommendations you feel are necessary to help fight youth drug abuse.*

There has been an increase in the rate at which young adult use illegal and legal medications. Many
sociologist
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sociologists
believe
this
is
as a result
of bad parental and societal influence.
This
essay
intend
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intends
is intended
to discuss the reasons attached to
this
increase and the adverse effect of
drug
abuse
. The
first
reason is connected with the family - Neglect and poverty seems to be the reason why
youth
engage in
drug
abuse
. In order for a child to grow up in a balanced way, it is very important that he or she is nurtured well by his or her parents.
However
, these days, it is often the case that children are neglected.
This
may be because of the fact that many parents in cities now both have to work so are often not around to give their children support when needed.
This
make
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makes
the children result
to
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for
in
of
drugs to curb the loneliness. Another factor is the increasing levels of poverty around the world. We have seen with globalization the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and
this
inevitably means that those who are poorer will have to resort to illegal means to get what others have. Of course,
this
will include the children in
the poorer
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the poorest
families selling drugs to make money in order to survive. The effect of
drug
abuse
has been seen in different areas of
live
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life
in our
youth
today. A major negative is the increasing level of mental cases recorded each year from
drug
abuse
, a larger percentage which are occupied by the
youth
.
This
is because they are mostly the
abuser
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abuse
of both legal drugs like tramadol,
pentacozine
and illegal drugs like cocaine and amphetamines.
Furthermore
,
drug
abuse
has been
statistical
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statistically
proven to be related to low IQ and a large rate of school- drop out.
This
was
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has been
evidence
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evident
evidenced
by the recently published journal
by
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of
the British Society of Psychology which showed that about 58% of
high-school
a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12
highschool
drop out can be attributed to
drug
abuse
. In conclusion, Neglect and poverty
seems
Suggestion
seem
to be the cause of
drug
abuse
with low I.Q and illiteracy being a major downfall. To solve
this
, health education about these major effects of
drug
abuse
in schools to our
youth
would go a long way in curbing
this
growing disease in our nation.
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