Teenage Drug Abuse: Cause And Solution

NameProfessorCourseDateTeenage Drug AbuseIt is common knowledge that nowadays drug abuse among the youth is one of the most severe problems our society faces head-on because, as experts believe, adult people are more likely to get addicted to any psychotropic substances if they already had an experience of taking them in adolescence. Charles Duhigg, an American non-fiction author, who won international recognition thanks to his book “The Power of Habit”, stresses that habits being deeply ingrained in brain are basically unfeasible to break off yet they can be replaced by the new ones (Duhigg 34). That is to say, narcomania is partly a habit as well since a human takes drugs day by day barely having a capability to control this urge, hence he requires a lot of efforts made and obviously medical intervention but theoretically an absolute recovery still isn’t possible. Therefore, preventing such disease would be way easier than finding an effective treatment. According to the latest Monitoring the Future survey, held in 2017, “teens’ use of illegal drugs (other than marijuana and inhalants) continues to decrease” (“Teens’ Drug Use Is Lower Than Ever (Mostly)”) which let us think the overall situation is getting better. Nevertheless,