METACOGNICION

Drugs and alcohol on the adolescent

In a world that is currently in crisis, where the values are darkened, where more and more families are divided, where the law of the pleasure and displeasure has been round a norm of life; many young people face the experience without sense, of frustration, rather than confront and respond to because of what your inner senses, opt for "be the crazy" looking for a thousand and one ways to escape from the reality that "uncomfortable".

The world of today gives you the adolescents to escape various forms of its interior, that really committed. Alcohol and drugs is becoming one of the most usual ways with which the adolescent search for "forget" the voice of his conscience.

All kinds of use - whether it is a little or a lot - should be considered as dangerous, since no one can predict who will develop serious problems. The key is to know reject them from the start, but the "say no" is not enough. Some young people are in "higher risk" that other of develop problems related to alcohol and drugs. Topping the list those whose families already have a history of substance abuse.

Products legally available include alcoholic beverages (for those over 21), tobacco (the legal age varies), some prescription drugs, inhalants and medicines OTC cough, flu, insomnia and to lose weight. Illicit drugs include marijuana, cocaine/ "crack", LSD, PCP, opium derivatives, the heroin and the "drugs designed

According to research, the young people who begin smoking or babies from an early age are at serious risk. These substances are known as the "the threshold drug", because large amount of time ends in the marijuana and from there to other drugs.

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