Drugs amongst youngsters

Some of the body needs to be corrected, such as from 1st paragraph; "It is funny that in so developed word that we live now, still nobody found a solution. Solution that would works and decrease this emergency statistic. How? And what we can do about it? Here are some solutions and I am sure that something has to change if we would consider at least some of them."

Good essay, but you do not really make much of an argument here. WHY are drugs bad? WHY must we stop children taking them if they want to? What are the bad affects of drugs?


People have told me all my life what drugs can do to me and it never stopped me, possibly because the people teaching me this forgot to tell me how much fun they are, and that not all drugs are fatally dangerous and addictive.


I don't smoke, but I remember trying it when I was 12. I was terrified, but I wanted to know, because all my friends smoked. My parents had led me to believe that one draw of a cigarette would make me instantly addicted. Obviously this was a lie. I stole a fag out of my mums bag and hid in the bathroom to smoke it. I was almost sick, and most definately not addicted. I concluded they had lied to me.


As I found out more about drugs later on in life I concluded that my teachers and parents had been selectively using facts, and had 'forgotten' to tell me a lot of things about drugs. Such as millions of people use drugs every weekend and do not die, or become addicted. That the chances of dying from taking E are really really slim and that unless you are a heavy smoker, cannabis does nothing really that bad to you.


I think that maybe if children were taught ALL the facts in school it would help. Such as the bad effects of E and the good, and what to do to stay safe when you are taking drugs. Inevitably people will still take them, so perhaps if they knew how to stay safe because they were taught it, there would not be so many drugs casualties at the end of the day?


Just my opinion. :)