#33. How do Teenagers Take Drugs
You would often hear people ask how and why teenagers end up using drugs in the first place, despite the fact that everything seems to be normal with them. For parents, having a teenage child who uses drugs is nothing else but their worst nightmare. Drugs are often regarded as precursors to other dangerous activities such as violent crime and addiction may cripple users and eventually be fatal.
Most teenagers tend to use drugs because they feel very relaxed and even more confident after using them. The reality is that drugs do make you feel good since they tend to directly act on the various nerve centres of our body including the limbic system present in the brain, which is also regarded as the pleasure centre. Teenagers usually start using drugs for recreation during the initial stages, while some begin by smoking a cigarette at a social gathering such as a late night party. While most of them cannot be considered smokers during this stage, they tend to feel really good about this new activity which they also feel makes them sound cool. Later on, they use drugs randomly just to give them a try thinking that it will be real fun.
The problem here is that drugs have the same impact on individuals whether they are using them for the first time or habitually. Most teenagers therefore tend to use drugs to get the "feel good" effect, and feel as if their use would change their situation in a positive way forever. They become reliant on drugs to improve their mood whether they are depressed, nervous or stressed out. They just use them for relaxing their mental state of mind and body. However, this feeling is not at all real and can have dangerous fallout on the overall health of users..
Many teenagers have started using drugs because of peer pressure. Young people want to belong to groups of people they like such as friends and other colleagues, and they do not want to be the odd one out in such gatherings. The feeling of being left out is often quite crippling for teenagers. They consider it to be a kind of social stigma and they start using drugs to cover their feelings of insecurity. However, what they do not take into consideration is the fact that drugs only end up further isolating them from their loved ones, and they just look forward to gaining the attention of one party who they are impressed by.
Secondly, some teenagers start using drugs as a way to relax and escape from their problems. Young people often get stressed out very easily and are just unable to cope with the various tensions in their lives and this leads to them taking up drugs. Once they get that relaxed feeling by using drugs, they start to use them o