Did you know that our society spends and average of $245.7 billion dollars on drugs and alcohol every year? $97.7 billion of this is spent on illegal drugs like ecstasy, LSD, and Methamphetamine. This is because the availability, crime, health problems, and peer pressure has increased considerably over the year, making drugs a #1 problem in the world today.
When drugs were first introduced to the world you would have to travel to another country to buy them. Soon they were available in big cities, now drugs are sold everywhere including the smallest towns like the ones we live in right now. It was rare to hear about drugs being available to anyone other than a doctor, but these days you can walk down the street and find drugs being used and sold by many people. The availability of drugs increased greatly, especially to teenagers of all ages. Teens around the ages of 15-18 are using drugs and also selling them to younger or older friends and strangers. With drugs being available for anyone to buy this leads several problems dealing with peer-pressure.
Many teens every year are having trouble because they are being pressured into doing drugs. Before it used to be pressuring someone into smoking a cigarette or drinking a beer, today it is more serious like doing Ecstasy or snorting crack cocaine. Peer-pressure today can be found everywhere for example, in school, at a school event, or at nightclubs. Nightclubs are dances and raves where teens go to hang out with their friends and dance the night away. Most raves are for teens of the age of 20 and under, this is to allow a drug-free habitat. A dance club for teenagers is something parent should not have to worry about, but with the kinds of drugs out on the market, raves and dances have accumulated a bad reputation. Every night at least one guy or girl is taken to the hospital due to an overdose at a rave party. More than half of these teens didn't realize there were being drugged until they wake up in a hospital the next day.