Arranged to complete the task of the basics of social sciences subject.
Social
Phenomena :
Drugs Abuse among Teenagers
By : Dian Zughlul A.
Now days, we've often heard about the abuse of the drugs. The
abuse of the drugs is use drugs for things that not related to treatment or
research without allowing the right procedure and dose. The abuse of the drugs
have many effect that could be very dangerous for the health. It could make
depression, addicted, and in other case it can also caused death.
Drugs abuse has become a big problem for society. It hard to
be controlled and now it become hard to solved. The circulation of drugs today
has become wider and wider. Of couse we should do something to control drugs
circulation ot it would caused new problems for society.
That conditions make sure that drugs abuse is belonging as
social phenomena. Social phenomena it self , born from human’s behaviour in
their social life and turn the social indications to be a fact or condition. So
in this chance, let me explain a little bit about drug abuse of teenager.
What is drugs?
Drugs is substance which may have medicinal, intoxicating,
performance enhancing or other effects when taken or put into a human body or
the body of another animal. In the
medical world, the drug actually has a benefit in the treatment process. It can
be a dope, pain relievers, eliminate anxiety for the patient. Of course, it is
based on a certain dose. But now days, the benefit of drugs have been abuse by
individual for their importance.
Drugs and Teenagers
Up to now, the circulation of drugs is still can't be
controlled. Almost all over the country people can easily get drugs from
irresponsibility persons. For example, from croupier that spread the drugs
around school, haunts, night club, even in the cells. That circulation of drugs
that can be accessed easily make concern for parents, government, and society.
There's many effort for erasing the circulation of drugs that
have been done. But there's still less possibility to keep away drugs among
teenager nor adult, even the primary and middle school children also have been
influenced by drugs.
According to Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) that
agreed by Indonesia in 1989, that every children is entitled to get information
about reproduction health (include HIV/AIDS and drugs) and be protected
physically and mentally. But it has the difference with the reality. Now days,
7 years old children has found consume some type of inhaled vapor. Children aged 8 years had used cannabis,
and at the age of 10 years old, children are using drugs of various kinds, such
as inhalants, marijuana, heroin, morphine, ecstasy, and others (according BNN
research in collaboration with the University of Indonesia).
In Indonesia, the
development of drugs addicts increase rapidly. Drugs generally influence
people in aged 11 until 24 years old. That mean drugs has influence the age of
productive or the age of student. At first, person who were taking drugs
usually begin with introduction of cigarettes, because this habit have become
natural things among students today. Because of this habit, the association continues to increase, especially
when the students join in an environment of people who have become drug
addicts. At first is an experiment, and then run into dependency.
Beside of the
association, factors of get addict at drugs also can be caused by family.
Parents are workaholic, broken home, have many problems, which usually didn't give enough attention to
their children. And then make them hungry for affection. Then the children
would do anything they want to do. And with the bad environment, children or teenager as immature person,
could easily influence and
fall into drugs.
Another factor is
individual problems. People who have many problems and live under the pressure usually
looking for an alternative to help them forgot about their problems. And then they think one of the alternatives is drugs. There are also many another factors
that caused drugs addicts, so we should be careful about our self and people we
loved.
Effects of Drugs
As we know, drugs
have so many negative effects especially for health. Use drugs for abuse, it
may caused disorders
of the nervous system, disorders
of the heart and blood vessels, disorders
of the lung, headaches,
nausea and vomiting, increased body temperature, sleepless and other.
For
drug users through needle, especially the use in turn, has the risk of
contracting diseases such as hepatitis B, C, and HIV/AIDS. So it must be sure
that drugs abuse is very dangerous problem.
Also the effects
of drugs abuse for drugs addicts is exchange of their behavior. For examples slow at work, sloppy at work,
restless, lost self-confidence,
apathy, full of suspicion,
provocative, became violent and brutal, difficulty
concentrating, feeling upset
and depressed, tend to hurt them, feelings of
insecurity, even suicide. These behaviors make them to
be expelled from the society.
Drugs user that have fallen into dependency is also can be
very potential to be criminals. They would do anything that needed to get
drugs. They would sell anything of their goods to earn money to get drugs. And
if they didn't have enough money, they would steal, rob, even kill or
everything needed to get their druga. Of course it will make concern of the
society.
How to Keep Away from Drugs
Drugs are a critical and complex
issue that cannot be solved by only one section bbecause the drug is not only an
individual problem but for society. Finding the right solution is a big job that including all of the society
elements, government, non-governmental organization and local
communities. It is very important
to work together
in order to protect children from the dangers of drugs.
Children
and teenager need of information, strategies,
and the ability to
prevent them from
dangers of the drugs or also to protect them from the influence of drugs abuse. One effort to response the dangers of drugs
is held an introducing program about drugs that focuses on school-age
children. There are also efforts to keep away drugs from our children and teenagers
such as create a good environment to growing up, implant conscious thought to
keep away from drugs, and making policy on drug
abuse. So, let's protect our self and people we loved to keep
away from drugs.
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