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The Downward Spiral By Trent Reznor: Chapter Summary

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Adolescents often have a very difficult time transitioning from youth to adulthood. Often times, they attempt to cope with a variety of stressors they experience by engaging in dangerous and harmful activities. Using a logistic regression analysis, a study lead by Anthony Spirito, Ph. D found “A significant portion of adolescents (approximately 15%) reported injuries associated with substance abuse. Adolescents who reported a history of risk-taking behaviors were much more likely to report substance use-related injuries” (Spirito 113). Why teenagers so frequently engage in these dangerous activities was the topic of the book “Adolescent Risk Behaviors” By Wolfe, Jaffe, and Crooks which explains that relationships between others is the primary factor leading to these behaviors. Teenagers who listen The Downward Spiral by Trent Reznor, a 90’s top chart album, can identify with several of the coping methods that the narrator uses after his relationship with a person close to him comes to an end. The narrator in the album eventually commits suicide after finding none of these coping methods were truly effective, and he was only destroying himself the entire time. The work attempts to warn listeners from …show more content…

Sexual activity can put teenagers at risk for several STIs and STDs, along with the risk of unexpected pregnancy. Substance abuse can also open the gateway to new potential diseases by weakening the immune system and offer an entry point for bacteria and viruses. Substance abuse can also lead to mental deterioration, physical ailments, and even death. Violence also is another dangerous risk behavior that adolescents often resort to. “Adolescent Risk Behaviors” notes “Rates of physical and sexual assault in dating relationships, including being beaten up and forced to have unwanted sex, range from 10 percent to 25 percent of high school students” (Crooks

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Three thousand, three hundred teens start smoking marijuana every single day (The Recovery Village 1), and fifty six percent of them will continue to smoke after highschool (NIDA 1). Teenage marijuana abuse has became a horrendous issue for many schools in the United States and is becoming more acceptable within the teen community. Only twenty one percent of students think marijuana poses a great risk, which is only half of the students that thought marijuana was a risk twenty years ago (NIDA 1). Clearly, there is an issue of teenage drug abuse, which Rich Wallace, the author of One Good Punch, decided to write about. Wallace wrote a book with the underlying issue of the potential risk of drug possession and use within teens and presents it as an issue that can ruin your life.

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Moreover, Teen girls will face a lot of problems when they drink alcohol at 18 or younger. For example, girls will have unprotected sex which may lead to pregnancy and diseases. Transmitted diseases like AIDS. Alcohol is not harmful as other drugs. I totally disagree with this because alcohol leads for many deadly diseases.

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The Catcher in The Rye should not be banned because the main character, Holden Caulfield, is a fictional character that teens can relate with. The teenage angst experienced throughout the novel is similar the daily life of some teens. They too are at the edge of childhood fighting the immense pressures of adulthood. One example is when Holden was speaking to his sister, Phoebe, he said to her that he pictures thousands of kids running around in a field of rye while he waits at the edge of a cliff, so he can catch them before they run off’ (Salinger). Teens can identify with this protector role with many of their younger siblings and family members.

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Last year’s figures show that three quarters of them got drunk, one in five passed out and a quarter of them injured themselves during the schoolies week. A more detailed survey was conducted in 2011 with the results being; 73.6% had been drunk, 37.6% had a hangover, 29.6% had sex, 16.8% had sex without a condom, 4.4% injected a drug, 3.5% shared a needle or syringe, 6.3% had driven a car while under the influence of alcohol, 10.6% had been in a car with a drunk driver, 24.8% vomited due to drinking, 6.1% vomited due to taking drugs, 18% passed out due to drinking, 6.9% passed out due to taking drugs, 26.5% had been injured or hurt, 14.2% had been in a fight, 13.1% had been sexually harassed, 15.6% had been cautioned by the police. An information expo was held by our year 12 health class. The topic

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“Thanks to advancements in diagnosis and treatment, more children and teens than ever before are currently on medication. This fact has some people worried that caregivers today are perhaps too eager to seek out medical solutions to behavior problems.” Though certain prescribed antidepressants and other medications are suggested to patients by doctors, they indeed have side effects that should be taken seriously. Suicide is one of these side effects, and many teenage suicides are linked to such medicines. Because of this, patients are instructed to be extremely careful when taking medication to treat mental illnesses and depression.

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Among high school students, those who use alcohol are five times more likely to drop out than those who don 't use alcohol. (4) Not only does it increase the incapability to be unresponsive in school, but alcohol increases the likelihood of creating an unbalanced emotional state to. Besides from the physical effects of alcohol it can lead to a teen being emotionally unstable. They will begin to withdraw from family and friends, and if children are involved, they will begin to exclude them too. (5) Also contemplating on how to handle a relationship will grow harder and harder, as long as alcohol is involved.

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“Depression is a disorder most commonly associated with adolescent suicide” (Hittleman 1). When the pain is too hard to endure, some choose to intentionally end their own lives. Teens usually face more difficulties than tweens, yet they’re not as mature as adults, making them the most vulnerable victims of depression. In Jay Asher’s novel Thirteen Reasons Why, he made an accurate portrayal of depression by delineating the pessimistic thoughts of protagonist Hannah Baker throughout her story, and without receiving succor from her friends, teachers or parents, committed suicide to end an unabated affliction. Depression is an agonizing experience, yet it can be imperceptible from outside.

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Drugs such as alcohol have an effect on all users, regardless of their age; however, alcohol has an especially harmful effect on teens since their bodies are still developing. Studies have shown that alcohol has numerous negative effects on a teen’s body and mental health; for example, a study conducted by the Center of Disease Control and Prevention stated that “alcohol consumption affects the brain’s frontal lobes, which is essential for functions such as emotional regulations, planning, and organization” (“Age”). Teens already have high emotions and difficulties planning and organizing; alcohol will only enhance teens’ struggle. The Center of Disease Control and Prevention also found that alcohol consumption at a young age can potentially cause chronic problems such as memory loss, depression, suicidal thoughts, and poor decision making (“Age”). Teens have a difficult enough time making decisions and organizing their lives, but adding alcohol to the mix will only make matters worse; their bodies are still developing, and they are still learning to be adults.

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services acknowledges that there are 10 million teens in the United States drinking regularly and over 20 percent binge drink. ( Teen Alcoholism). This information illustrates the dependence that teens have developed for alcohol and many of them don 't even know the issue that they are building for themselves. The signs that demonstrate that a teen is becoming or is addicted to alcohol are that he/ she is a heavy drinker, they drink regularly for no reason and becoming upset over the removal of accessibility of alcohol.

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