Essay On Chicago Drugs

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Teen tend to use drugs in their early to late teen years. Teens tend to start off by smoking marijuana. Then after getting bored of using the drug they use harder drugs like cocaine and heroin. Marijuana, Heroin and Cocaine are the top three drugs used in Chicago. Teens do realize what they are doing to themselves until the damage is already done. Drugs don't only affect the user it also affects their family and friends. Typically the user doesn’t care what is happening around them because they are focused on using the drug. Schools have drug programs like Dare. Dare stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education. Also school’s have yearly locker searches for teens bringing drugs to school. They try to prevent young adults from using and dealing …show more content…

Some rehab centers near chicago are Drug Rehab Chicago, Chicago Drug Rehab Treatment and Gateway Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers. Those are just some of the many rehab centers near Chicago. There is just as many Alcohol additions with teens in Chicago. In Naperville there was teens drinking till as late as 5am. Also their first day of school was the next day. The teens arrived to school intoxicated. 15 students came to school intoxicated that day. The federal Centers for Disease Control said that 42% of high school students had some amount of alcohol during the 30 days before the survey was taken. This shows that almost half of naperville students had some type of alcohol in the last 30 days. This leaves a bad impression on the school and the parents. They say that most drinking happens during/after school events, also it happens at school parties. Now schools are confronting students about teen drinking. They are trying to talk to students early before they start drinking. Now doctors are saying that a specific event called Lollapalooza is when the ER visits spike up. They think that police should crackdown on the people selling drugs and alcohol at the