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Essay On Drug Abuse Among Teenagers

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My topic will be about teenagers who abuse drugs in society. More and more teenagers are becoming drug addicts in the community and this leads to most of these teenagers dropping out of school to feed their habit of taking drugs by committing crime. Drug abuse is the excessive use of a substance especially a drug or alcohol. This excessive use of drugs leads learners to becoming dependent on the drug and they end up not being able to function without using the drug, because of this drug abuse learner’s end up doing illegal things like crime so that they can feed their habit.
Worldviews have a strong impact on how young teenagers perceive what is right and wrong: teenagers who have religious worldviews/ backgrounds are mostly influenced by lying integrity, morality, and values in this way these teenagers are less likely to go into drug abuse, but the teenagers who have non-religious worldviews are more likely to fall into drug abuse because they have no faith rules or norms to abide by.
A worldview is how we perceive ourselves in the …show more content…

Drug abuse also affects education in a bad way because learners are taught about how drugs affect their bodies, families and society around them. Even though learners receive this education about drugs they choose to turn a blind eye on this because they still go ahead and do drugs and once they become addicted to these drugs they end up dropping out of school.
Education is negatively affected by drug abuse because the percentage of learners who abuse drugs increases as time goes by which means the percentage of school drop outs will also increase as time goes by meaning that education about drugs is pointless to the

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