MY CHOICE: NOT TO DO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL.
On the bus ride to school little Joey has to make a choice. Yesterday on the bus, Joey was offered a cigarette, not sure of what to say, he told the boys, "Maybe tomorrow." Well, it is tomorrow and now the boys are approaching him. What will he do now?.
Many children and also adults are faced with choices like theses every day. Illegal substances are everywhere you look. The hardest thing is trying to avoid them. Everyone learns when they are young to "Just Say No," but not everyone remembers that when they are in a pressured situation that could change their life forever. We all have had choices since the day we were born, and we will have to live and die with those choices whether they are good or bad. .
Drugs are abused throughout the United States. Everywhere you go drug deals are happening. You may not see them but they are there. Not just adults are dealing drugs, many young people are also getting involved in these illegal activities. Drug abuse is one of the most discouraged behaviors in our country. There are forty million illegal drug users in the world today, and America is the biggest market for drugs. There are more drug dealers in this country than there are dentists. Illegal drug abuse must be stopped. The crime rate will sky rocket if we let this behavior continue. Illegal drugs and their abusers are a plague to society for many different reasons. Drugs have very harmful effects on the users and the people the user interacts with. Drug abuse leads to all sorts of crimes. All users, addicts, and casual users, are careless and reckless when under the influence. Alcoholism is another problem.
Alcoholism among young people is still increasing. Young people are not permitted to legally drink alcohol until they reach the age of twenty-one. Even though this drug is legal, many teenagers abuse it. More than 3,600 teens die a year from drinking and driving, and 85,000 are hurt.
Unfortunately, alcoholism does not affect everyone the same way. ... Our career choice can change do failing out of a previously desired program. ... The above brings the paper to the topic of informed choices on my use of alcohol. ... If it is all about informed choices we do need to recognize are responsibility of using alcohol if we so choose to partake. Being responsible does not mean going out and binge drinking every night. ...
Drug And Alcohol Use By Student Athletes The topic that I have chosen is student athletes' use of drugs and alcohol. ... They found that male high school athletes both use and abuse alcohol more frequently than do non-athletes. Also male non-athletes tend to abstain from alcohol use more than the athletes do. ... Another big influence of athletes using or not using drugs was peer pressure from teammates. ... I also found that many of the articles had suggestions for improving drug and alcohol prevention programs, though most of these ideas were not very specific as to how to implement ...
Alcohol is the most common drug used in America, making it exceed a billion dollar a year industry (Alcohol Ignites Sports Fans). ... Many people would argue that banning alcohol would not do anything to the alcoholics in the world. ... These children do not deserve to have this disease because of a choice their mother makes, if alcohol is banned these numbers will drastically decrease. ... These people do not have a choice, and if alcohol is prohibited they will never develop these diseases. ... Even if people do not agree with this prospective there are many other laws that can be chang...
As a person goes from child to teen they are faced with many changes and choices. ... In 1999 in December an annual survey was put out by the partnership for a drug free america, that found that teens found drugs to be uncool and not the right thing to do. ... The kids between 12-17 years old seemed to not use as many drugs as in the past years. ... Other drugs not mentioned seemed to level off. ... If a school is not doing too well the research might give them reasons as to why this might be happening. ...
People do not care if it is illegal or not. ... The same problem goes with drugs; by banning drugs it does not solve anything but creates even more trouble. ... What people do not know is it makes people want to do it more. ... The only way to prevent it is by letting people make their own choices. ... I myself like Gore Vidal have had my share of experiences with certain drugs in the past time, and have realized certain mistakes that I would have never learned if I had not tried it myself. ...
Being a teen myself, I have been to parties at which alcohol is not an uncommon sight, and so I will not be surprised if the end results show that teens are using alcohol at an alarming rate. I personally know it's quite easy to attain, and unlike drugs, people assume it won't do any harm to their academics in school, or to their bodies. Therefore they probably use alcohol more often then the wide array of drugs available. ... Since many people are not aware of the long-tern effects of alcohol, it will probably be the drug most abused by teens. ... In order to gather the nec...
(Paragraph 2) Legalization of Drugs is based on 4 argumentative points: -Taking drugs is an individual's choice. ... (Paragraph 3-4) then he ads: "Alcohol does not produce apoptosis, neither does nicotine" (Paragraph 6). Legalizing drug followers argue that taking drugs is an individual choice, and one is only harming him self, no one else. ... Califano states: "A child who reaches age 21 without smoking, abusing alcohol, or using drugs is virtually certain never to do so." ... My main thought was that "legalizing drugs will take the thrill out of drugs and peopl...
Women begin abusing alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do and may have more serious situations in their lives that trigger substance abuse. ... Mitchell] Grace explains "not until she was at my feet, a blade in her chest, blood soaking through her gown. ... When not used properly, they can lead to addiction and death, especially when used in combination with alcohol or other drugs. According to [healthywoman.org] women are more likely to use narcotic pain relievers for reasons that are not medial and they are more likely to mix prescription drugs with alcohol. ... Men and w...
The drugs themselves do not cause violence; it is the fact that they are illegal that causes the violence. ... It also does not seem logical that the use of one drug would cause a craving for another drug, never used before. Many drug users say that the first drugs they ever used were the two socially sanctioned drugs, alcohol and tobacco. ... The same survey reports, "The rate of past month illicit drug use among youths was higher among those that were currently using cigarettes or alcohol, compared with youths not using cigarettes or alcohol. ... The rate of illicit drug use was also associ...