Drug Addiction In Adolescents, A Risk Within Reach Of Your Hands

Drug addiction in adolescents, a risk within reach of your hands

Addictive substances are closer than we believe, in our neighborhood, at school, in the park, on the street, around us. And for teenagers as such acquiring them are available to their hands.

Drug use, due to their incidence and the serious consequences that these substances carry for health, is considered a social problem. Teenagers are one of the most vulnerable groups in the face of narcotics.  Adolescence is an age where they are more likely to consume them either for several reasons such as curiosity, family problems, etc., for these reasons the consumption of these substances is one of the most numbers today.

Types of addiction

When we talk about addiction we can refer either to an addiction to alcohol, drugs or tobacco. But at the same time all of these will cause damage to the physical and mental health of the adolescent that consumes it.

Alcohol addiction

Alcohol is a drink with a wide variety of uses. However, this is socially used to interact with other people, which increases the chances of causing addiction, since practically an early age young people begin their consumption.

Nicotine addiction (smoking)

The cigarette is one of the worst creations of the human being. This product is really harmful to health in a few or high amounts, being one of the main causes of lung cancer deaths in the world and charges millions of life annually.

Drug addiction

Among this group we can find marijuana, cocaine, heroin and opiates in general, methamphetamine, metadona, ketamine, steroids, medications with records and without it (like some syrups).

This type of drugs have much more serious addictions and each of them have their own symptoms and consequences. 

As stated above without matter what the type of addiction is, they will cause damage to the individual and not only the damage will be caused, but also the people around them since it will be a strong blow to know that some person close to thisIt is suffering some type of addiction, which at first costs to accept.

Causes of Addiction in Adolescents

The lack of family support.

The lack of a structure and family support were present elements. (Camagüey, 2018) Perhaps for a destabilization in the families of these adolescents such as: domestic violence, lack of attention, one of the two parents is not at home, etc. These problems become one of the main causes for adolescents to consume drugs since without a guide or support they will be more vulnerable, they do not have supervision, parents or responsible will not be alerted to the situation, thus consumption forteenagers will look easier.

The influences of the environment in which young people develop.

The lack of family support, to which the lack of affection of the parents is added, followed by the influence of friends, promises of a life with less difficulty, the ease of getting money, curiosity and departure from school. (Camagüey, 2018) All are factors that make the reality of addiction distorting it making it look like an easy way out of their problems. Many people work with the microtrafficking of these substances, seeing teenagers who are happening problems convince them more easily, looking for these drugs to be consumed and expanded. The influences around will be seen as the only help they have, but they will lose more than they appear to win.

Ignorance of the effect caused by drugs and plans for the future. 

The same influences that teenagers treat are responsible for not showing the reality of these drugs, many times teenagers are not even aware of the drug they are consuming and even less know the damages that can occasion. Nor do they feel curious to know more because they conform to the effect they cause they cause in them.

Damage caused by addiction to adolescents:

Alcohol

• Reduces the volume of the hippocampus, causing memory damage.
• Altera the prefrontal cortex, a area responsible for controlling behavior to correct behavior or motor control.
• Reduces attention and ability to make decisions.
• It favors impulsivity and depression, since the consumption of this substance can prevent the birth of new neurons.

Tobacco

• Pulmonary function decreases and its development is slower, at first it produces mild obstruction of the respiratory tract, causing cough, lack of sibilant breath and breathing.
• Increases the resting heart rate of two to three times faster per minute than in non -smokers.
• Pulmonary chronic diseases, such as bronchitis and emphysema and disease of blood vessels, which can cause heart attacks or infarcts. (Ardizone, 2015)

Drug

• A mental or behavior condition, such as depression, anxiety or disorder due to attention/hyperactivity deficit (ADHD)
• Impulsive or risky behavior
• Background of traumatic events, such as having had a car accident or having been a victim of abuse
• Low self – esteem or feelings of social rejection. (May Clinic, 2019)
• All types of addiction will cause health damage, self – esteem, socially and will be dependent on these substances. Each one has different damage to each other, but all will affect the health of the individual aggressively.

Help methods

Addictions If they have a help method, these are rehabilitation centers.

These centers are the aid method that mainly requires will and support force, help overcome some substance to which it has become dependent. Its purpose is to help overcome addiction through a process that takes time but depends on each person’s voluteand.

The rehabilitation centers have professionals and methods I agreed to the addiction they are going through. A rehabilitation center can be for outpatients. (National Rehabilitation Information Center, 2012) In these cases the patient must participate in the appointments that are programmed and therapies that will help their recovery. Some hospitals offer hospital rehabilitation. (National Rehabilitation Information Center, 2012) In this case they will virtually live in the rehabilitation center until their addiction is resolved or partially resolved and the first method is determined.

Adolescent testimonies with addition

Acontinuation will present real testimonies of adolescents or people who began to consume some kind of substance since their adolescence and in some cases how they left this addiction.

Testimony 1:

My name is Jhan, I started on the road of drugs since the age of 13, I started consuming marijuana, then I went to another substance: coca base, in this I spent a year and I was already crazy to auction, they threw me out of the house to the houseThe 16, I already slept in corridors, I stole, I had my gang with which I made my misdeeds, I had a time for a shot that put me in my foot while I stole in a store. Since then I reconsidered and realized that this was not the best for me and that I had to overcome myself to leave that vice. Thank God I am finishing my baccalaureate with judgment, without bad together, or anything and I thank the people who were always supporting me and fighting for my good. I thank God for doing the miracle in me, because people told me that they no longer took me. But I tell the parents: if their son is in the drug, they do not reject it, nor are they isolated, because he needs support and first of all, honey. 

Testimony 2:

The sad reality is that I was too young and I got carried away by circumstances and why not say it, for friends … At 17 I saw myself planted there, inclined on the table looking at that white dust, I agreed to the invitation and snorted myFirst coca line on that long night where the grams would fall to peers. It was the 5 -year principle that my nightmare lasted, prey to my lies, of the robberies of money at home, of days without appearing or giving signs of life, of abandoning my studies, the culprit of the cries and sorrows of my parents… an agony that kills in life, but it’s your life until you decide otherwise and want to change it.

Wishing to die and die is the best you want when you are hooked to cocaine, you can’t live without it. Does anyone imagine being able to live without air? Anxiety attacks oppress your chest when you finish the last bag, there is no more money but you need more and more and more … you despair, the heart beats with a huge force, the nose full of blood and injuries produced by the cuts by the cutsthat generates coca by sniffing it, do not eat, do not sleep, depression is your bread every day … in hell you can be much better, believe me.

Now I am 24 years old, my existence in this world has changed since I faced my illness and opened my eyes. I looked for the support of my relatives and help in a CAD, along with all of them and my desire to overcome today I can shout that: I am ex-cocainómano!!! I have been consuming 2 and a half years and I will stay until the day I die because my life is worth more than that damn white dust!!!"