Adolescent Drug Abuse :: Drug Abuse, Substance Abuse

Adolescent Drug AbuseTable of ContentsI.) Introduction ................................................. 1II.) Review of Literature ........................................ 2A) outset 1 .............................................. 2B) Source 2 .............................................. 2C) Source 3 .............................................. 3D) Source 4 .............................................. 3E) Source 5 .............................................. 3III.) Methodology ................................................ 4IV.) Results of Information Gathered ............................. 4A) Source 1 .............................................. 4B) Source 2 .............................................. 5C) Source 3 .............................................. 5D) Source 4 .............................................. 6E) Source 5 .............................................. 6V.) Summary and Conclusion ....................................... 6ReferencesI.) Intro ductionCrack, booze, pot, crystal- from the inner metropolis to the suburbs to vitiatedtowns, the world of the adolescent is permeated by drugs. When a littleharmless experimentation becomes addiction, parents, teachers, and cliniciansare often at a loss. For this age group (roughly ages 13 to 23), traditionalsubstance insult programs simply are not enough (Nowinski, inside cover).Todays society provides many challenges for adolescents that ourparents never had to face. Pre-marital sex and pregnancy, alcohol abuse, anddrug addiction have always been virtually but they have never been more availableto adolescents than they are now. Adolescents are more on their own to takecare of themselves with more and more individual parent households. The conundrum ofdrug and alcohol is a major one. Teenagers feel a need to drink and do drugs tofit in to peer groups. The problem is widespread. The common thoughts thatdrugs are only in the city where the poor live but that is wrong. Any singl eperson can get drugs from the inner city to the small rural towns of Texas andNebraska. It doesnt matter where you are. There is a major need for adults tointervene and stop the problem at its beginnings, the adolescents. If we sithere and deny the concomitant that the problem is there then we are just settingourselves up for disaster.II.) Review of LiteratureA Source 1The first piece of publications that I used was a book written by Dr.Joseph Nowinski entitled Substance Abuse in Adolescents & Young Adults. It waswritten at the Elmcrest Psychiatric add in 1990. The book described Dr.Nowinskis study of adolescent addicts of drugs and alcohol. It goes on toexplain the need for the development of treatment plans for adolescents becauseconventional plans do not work on this age group.B) Source 2The second source that I used was a journal term entitled Prevalenceof substance abuse in a rural teenage population. It was written by WadeSilverman. This article was published in The Journ al of Adolescent ChemicalDependency in 1991. This article presented the results of a survey done in arural school system to assess the prevalence rates of substance use and related