Drugs: The English Project
Young*people’s*opinion*of*drugs*and*drug*use*in*general
Today, young people all over the world are affected by drugs. A lot of
young people have different views on the legalization of drugs. Some of them
have strong views against drug legalization. Everyday around the world there
are teenage boys abusing Rx drugs for the first time. Rx drugs are the most
abused drugs by teenagers after alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco.
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The picture
below gives an overview of hard and soft drugs.
Hard drugs
are physically addictive, and may be easy to overdose on. Soft drugs are not
physically addictive.
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I have read in a newspaper that some young people are against changing
the laws on drugs, and therefore think it should be legal/permitted to use both
hard and soft drugs. However, many young teenagers do not understand the
criteria that makes drugs considered dangerous; drugs can, for example, lead to
mental health problems.
Here in Europe, we often have other rules about drugs. Drugs like
cannabis, ecstasy, cocaine are illegal/ permitted to use. But there are still
other drugs which are against the law, such as heroin are not allowed to be
used in our country. Many of today's teenagers in Europe have said ‘drugs are
illegal for a reason’. They consider all drugs to be dangerous because they can
lead to mental health problems or other issues. The main argument against
legalization is the risk to health associated with drug use. Some young people
argue that illegal drugs are worse for a person’s health than alcohol. In many
newspapers people tell their own reasons for using drugs. People often say that
they didn’t really know, or had never really thought about why they do drugs,
but the main reason generally is the way of life, the culture said to lead
young people in a wrong direction. People also said they felt pressure from
friends to fit in by taking drugs. Other people have said that drugs could be
used to escape feelings of depression or from problems at home, school or their
personal lives in general.
The two articles titled The World’s view of drugs and A Life on Drugs both speak of the negatives of drugs and drug use. In The World’s views of drugs it is explained how many European youths are talking about why they think drugs are bad, and that some believe them more dangerous than alcohol. The article A Life on Drugs, follows the man Drake Balls, who had been a drug addict and have been clean for 19 years, giving another picture of the dangers of drugs. The two articles agree that not only are drugs illegal, they are also dangerous as seen by the way they are described as being the cause of several mental illnesses, and making people unhappy, even catching them in a downward spiral of drug abuse and distribution. Meanwhile the articles also both state how easy it is to get caught, describing both peer pressure and to try and be cool and fit in.
SvarSletThe stars is confusing me in the second headline!
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