Substance Abuse Among Teenager and Crime Rate

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Issue: “Substance abuse among teenagers consequently increases the crime rate”.

1.0Chosen aspect

My theme is about abuse. “Substance abuse among teenagers consequently increases the

crime rate” is my chosen issue. I chose this issue is because I saw an online news shows that the

substance abuse among teenagers had increase rapidly. In the “Youth substance abuse problem

tackled by Staten Island at all day summits” news showed that a lot of teenagers had died due to

the overdose of drugs in the island.

2.0Critical evaluation of findings

Substance abuse teenagers involved in criminal activities due to peer pressure. Peer

pressure is the main reason that teenagers start to drink and taking drugs. A lot of teenagers

want to feel included and liked by their teenage peers, so they start to drink and even in drug

use in order to be accepted by them (The partnership at drugfree.org nd).Many teenagers will

just follow their friends even they know is something illegal or wrong and some teenagers take

advantage on their popularity and ask other teenagers to steal drugs or alcohol (Teenzeen

2014).Teenagers should avoid negative peer pressure because these friends may influence you to

involve in illegal activities and even in crime which will destroy your future. Teenagers should

choose friends carefully because good friends will always help you but bad friends will lead you

to a wrong path.

Treatments and programs for substance abuse teenagers should be held continuously and in

a more effective way. Long term treatment and programs can totally prevent teenagers to involve

in substance abuse again. Drug education should be taught in early stage and the content and

learning process must be design according to their age(Watkins 2009).A program for teenagers

that involved in substance abuse should organize in difference places like The Adolescent

Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) program which held in many areas and promote

a healthy lifestyle. (National Institute of Justice nd).These programs should be held around the

country to increase the awareness of teenagers toward substance abuse which indirectly will

decrease the crime rate.

3.0Process

3.1Sources

I had used one book and three articles for this report. The title of two main sources are

“Teens at Risk” book by Christine Watkins and “Teens and Peer Pressure” article by Teenzeen.

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