Adolescent Drug Abuse :: Drug Abuse, Substance Abuse

Adolescent Drug AbuseTable of ContentsI.) entree ................................................. 1II.) Review of Literature ........................................ 2A) offset 1 .............................................. 2B) theme 2 .............................................. 2C) Source 3 .............................................. 3D) Source 4 .............................................. 3E) Source 5 .............................................. 3III.) Methodology ................................................ 4IV.) Results of development Gat presentd ............................. 4A) Source 1 .............................................. 4B) Source 2 .............................................. 5C) Source 3 .............................................. 5D) Source 4 .............................................. 6E) Source 5 .............................................. 6V.) Summary and Conclusion ....................................... 6ReferencesI.) Intro ductionCrack, booze, pot, crystal- from the privileged city to the suburbs to smalltowns, the world of the adolescent is permeated by drugs. When a teeny-weenyharmless experimentation becomes addiction, promotes, teachers, and cliniciansare often at a loss. For this age root (roughly ages 13 to 23), traditionalsubstance abuse programs simply are non enough (Nowinski, inside cover).Todays society provides many challenges for adolescents that ourparents never had to face. Pre-marital sex and pregnancy, alcoholic drink abuse, anddrug addiction fill always been around but they have never been more availableto adolescents than they are now. Adolescents are more on their own to takecare of themselves with more and more single parent households. The trouble ofdrug and alcohol is a major one. Teenagers feel a need to drink and do drugs tofit in to peer groups. The problem is widespread. The common thoughts thatdrugs are only in the city where the poor wait but that is wrong. Any s ingleperson can get drugs from the inner city to the small rural towns of Texas andNebraska. It doesnt matter where you are. There is a major need for adults tointervene and stop the problem at its beginnings, the adolescents. If we sithere and deny the fact that the problem is there then we are provided settingourselves up for disaster.II.) Review of LiteratureA Source 1The first piece of literature that I used was a intensity written by Dr.Joseph Nowinski entitled Substance Abuse in Adolescents & new-fashioned Adults. It waswritten at the Elmcrest Psychiatric Institute in 1990. The book set forth Dr.Nowinskis study of adolescent addicts of drugs and alcohol. It goes on toexplain the need for the development of manipulation plans for adolescents becauseconventional plans do not work on this age group.B) Source 2The second source that I used was a ledger member entitled Prevalenceof substance abuse in a rural teenage population. It was written by WadeSilverman. This article w as make in The Journal of Adolescent ChemicalDependency in 1991. This article presented the results of a survey done in arural school day system to assess the prevalence rates of substance use and related