Seperation of Church and State

A government poll taken in London in 2002 shows that 20 percent of British school children age 11 to 15 took illicit drugs in the past year, compared to 18 percent the previous year, According to the poll, 13 percent of the 10,000 children surveyed used marijuana in the past year. In addition, one in 100 children took heroin in 2002.There was also a slight increase in the number of children who drank alcohol, from 24 percent in 2001 to 26 percent in 2002. The volume consumed had increased from 9.9 units to 10.5 units. In the statistics, the increase in drug consumption shows the seriousness of the problem of popularity of drugs among the youths and teens. There are several reasons that show that drug-usage is harmful.

The possible reasons why young people or teens use more drugs are many: pressure from peers or drug dealers, to relieve boredom, to feel good, to forget about their troubles and relax, to have fun, to satisfy curiosity, to take risks, to ease pain, to feel like an adult, to show independence, to belong to a specific group, or to look cool. However, they forget that these drugs and alcohol do more harm than good.

Sometimes even small amounts of drugs kill brain cells. Unlike

Around 1 million to 2 million young Americans are addicted to drugs. Hospitals report equal emergencies from abuse of legal drugs as well as from illegal drugs. Young drug abusers commonly deny their problem by playing down the extent of drug use or blaming external factors, such as job or family stress. Anyways, what ever might be the reason, if any kind of a drug is taken at least once, there is a full possibility of getting addicted to it.

However, if a drug addict wants to quit drugs, he could do so. Yet, the ramifications of the drug abuse must be faced. The seriousness of the drug abuse is apparent as it is seen that the withdrawal from a drug addiction may yield to nausea or vomiting, shakes, sweats, tremors, and acute craving for the drug. Recovery is often very difficult because it requires the addicted teen or the young person to change habits and lifestyle. They should also control the use of potentially addicting substances throughout life. In fact, only one-third of them attain full recovery. For example, Burt Associates in their evaluation of the National Treatment Association programs used a similar design in which they employed a control group. They successfully located and interviewed 81% of an initial sample of 360 teen and young college students who had previously been to the drug-treatment. Only One in five (29%) of the total sample were considered "fully recovered" at the follow-up interview, while 37% were considered 'partially recovered". 34

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