Teens who recover from abusing drugs, tend to relapse later on in life. Relapse is a return of a disease or illness after partial recovery from it. This certain relapse is where you go back to abusing drugs from a time period of recovery. There are many reasons why people relapse on drugs. One reason for relapsing on drugs is stress. Numerous of teens relapse because of the stress brought on by school, relationships, and home life. Another reason is being around social places where drugs are available. Unless the teenager is monitored day by day, they are likely to start back using drugs if seen passed around. Their thoughts will most likely turn back to their past actions and behavior patterns when they are around the people or places associated with their past drug use. Past friends can also have effect on you relapsing to drugs. Old companions who still utilize drugs will use peer pressure, teasing and manipulation to get a teen in early recovery to return to your old self. If an teen spends time thinking obsessively about how it felt to be high or telling addiction stories to friends about past drug use, this is an indication that relapse is imminent. Without drugs, many teens in recovery don’t know what to do with their spare time. A bored teen is a teen who is asking for trouble. This means the teen could possibly start back abusing drugs. In order to prevent that from happening, they can get together with a good positive group of friends and hang out …show more content…
With all this being said, teens should make the right decision and not fall under the bus of abusing drugs. Teens should not give into peer pressure because that can be the main reason you start abusing drugs. You must also build a better bond with your parents and communicate with them. Being that there are a lot of negative consequences in abusing drugs, you should not abuse because you can easily be another number in the mortality