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Essay on Should Drugs be Given to Adolescents to Treat Depression be Restricted?
Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." (Feldman 184) Adolescents in the eyes of our 90's society today have changed greatly from the past. Parents no longer can control the way their child grows up or behaves when not in their line of sight. A child can be taught well by their parents, but out on the streets there is peer pressure.
An adolescent's main goal these days is to fit in and not be different from their peers. Some adolescents get into drugs and others have an inner will to say no. Addiction is the disease that eventually starts to plague these adolescents that decide to take the wrong path. Many people ask why do kids these days get affected by addiction? Addiction can lurk up on anyone putting aside race, age, or gender because this disease does not care. Eventually misfortunes with the law or even death occur. There is no substitute. I am not saying that sometimes addiction only plagues those adolescents who choose the wrong path. There are many other possibilities, such as problems within a family causing a child to choose a downhill path. What I am saying though, is that I had a first hand experience getting arrested because I followed peer pressure. I wish I never would of said yes and tried to fit in, but instead said no and never had any obstacles with the law.
Addiction is in the subconscious mind of every person, but only some people decide to bring it into their conscience mind. America is the only country in the world with a large and growing number of adolescents addicts. "The reason is that adolescents-by the nature of the beast-fight authority." Throughout the world, adolescents are like a sensitive minority group just waiting to be misunderstood and attacked.......
