Drug Use in the HomeEssay title: Drug Use in the HomeDrug Use In The HomeDrug use has become a major issue around the world. As the drug use problem grows we see it affecting us in many ways. One of the ways drug use affects us the most is when children become victims of its’ deadly effects. As children are exposed and affected by drugs at a young age it is the responsibility of parents to protect them from the many dangers of drugs. Parents need to know how to help their children avoid using drugs and if the children are using drugs, how to help them stop using drugs before their lives are dangerously impacted.
Preventing drug use should be the first step in dealing with drugs. By talking openly with children parents can help children understand that they care about their well-being and their future. Parents must analyze their children’s level of exposure to drugs and age group in order to talk to them according. If children are young and not familiar with drugs, parents need to let them know drugs exist and that drugs should not be part of their life. Children need to know drugs are forbidden and simply that drug use is not allowed. If children are in their teen years and have a higher exposure to drugs they need to understand how drugs can hurt them now and how they can have a negative effect on the rest of their lives. Children must know that one’s decisions in life will always have a ripple effect and affect the rest of our lives. There are choices that children will make today that can change who they are 20 years from now. As stated in the WEBMD article, Responding to teen substance use (Sept. 13, 2006), “The effects cause changes in a teens alertness, perceptions, movement, judgment, and attention.” Along with these effects, the teen may also “have difficulties in school or even drop out,” as per WEBMD (Sept. 13, 2006) which will defiantly alter the course of the rest of their lives. The choices that children make as they change from teens to adults will define the type of adults they become.
As children grow older and are exposed to drugs in their social life environment they can easily make mistakes and give into peer pressure or simply want to experiment with drugs. Parents need to be prepared to recognize if there is a drug use problem. Parents must prepare themselves by learning the symptoms and side effects of the different drugs children are and will be exposed to. In the ABOUT.COM website article, Parenting for Adolescents, by Denis Witmer (2007), is a list of symptoms to look for. In this article the author list signs to look for at home and signs to look for in school environment. The author also lists Physical and emotional signs that can be detected to determine if drug use is occurring. Parents must also learn to notice children’s behavior change and look at their friends. The type of company children choose can be an important factor in what type of environment they will be surrounding themselves with. At this point, it is extremely important that parents are always aware of what children are doing and who they are dong it with. As growing teenagers, children expect privacy, but if they choose to hide activities from parents, it will probably be due to the fact that it is something they should not be doing. If a parent is suspicious of their child, one must do anything that needs to be done to confirm their doubts. Sometimes parents choose to ignore or disbelieve that the problem is before them and it is too late before they attempt to do anything. Drugs not only have short-term effects, but they can have long-term effects in children such as problems with the judicial system and/or can lead to their death. Many times when children are involved in drug use and they get into trouble with the judicial system, parents can help them recover, and get back on track with their lives. Other times when they drug use has gone too far and leads to their death, it is too late.
Exposure to drugs is mostly everywhere today. This problem has been growing bigger and bigger every year. The war against drugs is the longest war ever fought by this country and the world. Parents must attempt to protect their children from this war by minimizing children’s exposure or at least limit their access to drugs. Children spend most of their time either at school or in some sort of school activity. Parents should make every attempt to be involved in school activities and volunteering to assist in the organization of extracurricular activities. Many parents believe that if children are in school they are safe, but may times it is at school where they are mostly exposed to the danger of drugs. Therefore, parents must make every effort to be involved in their children’s school activities. By doing so not only do they know what their children are doing but parents are able to
The International Drug Policy Foundation was established to support the research to document, implement, and evaluate the effects of global narcotics policy. To date, most of these research, policies, and evidence bases have not been conducted in the USA. There are two key questions: How are these research studies conducted and the outcomes in practice? In order to answer these questions, it is critical to examine the studies funded in USA from the time of the founding of the International Drug Policy Foundation.
The IPD Foundation began in 1971, one of the most critical times for drug policy. The USA experienced two years of drug and alcohol abuse, then the first large-scale survey of American youth to be conducted on drug, alcohol, and youth issues in 1975. The survey found that more than 60% of Americans had an alcohol or drug problem that forced them to purchase drugs and alcohol. Of the 1,150 young adults who participated, only 20% of the American youth said they had a problem while 16% said it forced them to buy. Of the 1,000 youth who were surveyed after the survey, nearly 60% said they had problems while only 3% said it forced them to buy.
Among our other studies, we conducted longitudinal, inter-individual surveys using nationally representative samples (an older age group is more likely to report higher substance use and alcohol use rates, thus, more youth among the young adults aged 20-49 years old). We looked at a wider range of adolescents, including young adults from middle teens to senior 20s to mid 20s and older adolescents from high school age to college-age persons. In addition to being a study of individual and group differences in drug use, we also conducted interviews with family members of youth. Of the 6,000 kids who took questions and provided information to the researchers about their drug and alcohol problem, only 21% asked. A second question answered “did the parents of the parents of the kids have any involvement in drug use in the past year?” only about 9% answered. Only 26% of the questions answered “did your parents have any involvement in drug use in the past year? ” We conducted a series of analyses that found that a large part of teenagers who were taken away from an “other” substance were still able to participate in research. This phenomenon was described in an article in the April 1973 issue of the American Journal of Sociology: “One thing that is often overlooked is the fact that young adults take to drugs frequently and that there are other substances besides drugs.” The researchers also documented that “young people’s use of alcohol and drug use are among the lowest among the age groups. An additional limitation of our current research in the USA is that some of the young people taking this drug experience higher depression rates, as if they were taking the same substances as the adults taking them. It may be that young people have a negative affect that can be attributed to not having had access to the right drugs.”
With our current findings in both the youth and the college age populations, it is easy to see that the USA is no longer considered to be the “gateway drug capital” by the USA’s drug policy makers. As long as the USA continues on those drug policy priorities the USA is likely to do well at the world world drug table. In fact, if we follow the US’s current Drug Policy Policies, it will be too late to change the way the country is governed.
Fifty years ago, drug policy was the first government effort to
The International Drug Policy Foundation was established to support the research to document, implement, and evaluate the effects of global narcotics policy. To date, most of these research, policies, and evidence bases have not been conducted in the USA. There are two key questions: How are these research studies conducted and the outcomes in practice? In order to answer these questions, it is critical to examine the studies funded in USA from the time of the founding of the International Drug Policy Foundation.
The IPD Foundation began in 1971, one of the most critical times for drug policy. The USA experienced two years of drug and alcohol abuse, then the first large-scale survey of American youth to be conducted on drug, alcohol, and youth issues in 1975. The survey found that more than 60% of Americans had an alcohol or drug problem that forced them to purchase drugs and alcohol. Of the 1,150 young adults who participated, only 20% of the American youth said they had a problem while 16% said it forced them to buy. Of the 1,000 youth who were surveyed after the survey, nearly 60% said they had problems while only 3% said it forced them to buy.
Among our other studies, we conducted longitudinal, inter-individual surveys using nationally representative samples (an older age group is more likely to report higher substance use and alcohol use rates, thus, more youth among the young adults aged 20-49 years old). We looked at a wider range of adolescents, including young adults from middle teens to senior 20s to mid 20s and older adolescents from high school age to college-age persons. In addition to being a study of individual and group differences in drug use, we also conducted interviews with family members of youth. Of the 6,000 kids who took questions and provided information to the researchers about their drug and alcohol problem, only 21% asked. A second question answered “did the parents of the parents of the kids have any involvement in drug use in the past year?” only about 9% answered. Only 26% of the questions answered “did your parents have any involvement in drug use in the past year? ” We conducted a series of analyses that found that a large part of teenagers who were taken away from an “other” substance were still able to participate in research. This phenomenon was described in an article in the April 1973 issue of the American Journal of Sociology: “One thing that is often overlooked is the fact that young adults take to drugs frequently and that there are other substances besides drugs.” The researchers also documented that “young people’s use of alcohol and drug use are among the lowest among the age groups. An additional limitation of our current research in the USA is that some of the young people taking this drug experience higher depression rates, as if they were taking the same substances as the adults taking them. It may be that young people have a negative affect that can be attributed to not having had access to the right drugs.”
With our current findings in both the youth and the college age populations, it is easy to see that the USA is no longer considered to be the “gateway drug capital” by the USA’s drug policy makers. As long as the USA continues on those drug policy priorities the USA is likely to do well at the world world drug table. In fact, if we follow the US’s current Drug Policy Policies, it will be too late to change the way the country is governed.
Fifty years ago, drug policy was the first government effort to
The International Drug Policy Foundation was established to support the research to document, implement, and evaluate the effects of global narcotics policy. To date, most of these research, policies, and evidence bases have not been conducted in the USA. There are two key questions: How are these research studies conducted and the outcomes in practice? In order to answer these questions, it is critical to examine the studies funded in USA from the time of the founding of the International Drug Policy Foundation.
The IPD Foundation began in 1971, one of the most critical times for drug policy. The USA experienced two years of drug and alcohol abuse, then the first large-scale survey of American youth to be conducted on drug, alcohol, and youth issues in 1975. The survey found that more than 60% of Americans had an alcohol or drug problem that forced them to purchase drugs and alcohol. Of the 1,150 young adults who participated, only 20% of the American youth said they had a problem while 16% said it forced them to buy. Of the 1,000 youth who were surveyed after the survey, nearly 60% said they had problems while only 3% said it forced them to buy.
Among our other studies, we conducted longitudinal, inter-individual surveys using nationally representative samples (an older age group is more likely to report higher substance use and alcohol use rates, thus, more youth among the young adults aged 20-49 years old). We looked at a wider range of adolescents, including young adults from middle teens to senior 20s to mid 20s and older adolescents from high school age to college-age persons. In addition to being a study of individual and group differences in drug use, we also conducted interviews with family members of youth. Of the 6,000 kids who took questions and provided information to the researchers about their drug and alcohol problem, only 21% asked. A second question answered “did the parents of the parents of the kids have any involvement in drug use in the past year?” only about 9% answered. Only 26% of the questions answered “did your parents have any involvement in drug use in the past year? ” We conducted a series of analyses that found that a large part of teenagers who were taken away from an “other” substance were still able to participate in research. This phenomenon was described in an article in the April 1973 issue of the American Journal of Sociology: “One thing that is often overlooked is the fact that young adults take to drugs frequently and that there are other substances besides drugs.” The researchers also documented that “young people’s use of alcohol and drug use are among the lowest among the age groups. An additional limitation of our current research in the USA is that some of the young people taking this drug experience higher depression rates, as if they were taking the same substances as the adults taking them. It may be that young people have a negative affect that can be attributed to not having had access to the right drugs.”
With our current findings in both the youth and the college age populations, it is easy to see that the USA is no longer considered to be the “gateway drug capital” by the USA’s drug policy makers. As long as the USA continues on those drug policy priorities the USA is likely to do well at the world world drug table. In fact, if we follow the US’s current Drug Policy Policies, it will be too late to change the way the country is governed.
Fifty years ago, drug policy was the first government effort to