Say no to drugs
What are drugs?
A drug is any substance which when taken into the body, alters the body’s function either physically and psychologically. Drugs may be legal (e.g. alcohol, caffeine and tobacco) or illegal (e.g. cannabis, ecstasy, cocaine and heroin). ( http://www.drugaware.com/)
There are drugs that are legally produced and used in medicine if it is procured in an illegal way for non-medical use its then it is danger to the society.
One of the major causes of crime is drugs and peer pressure amongst teenagers. Drug users do crimes such as robbing people and stealing valuable items in their houses to maintain the addiction.
These are some of the reasons why teenager's use drugs:
+ Socialising with friends\ peer pressure
+ Boredom
+ Curiosity/ experimental
+ To escape from psychological or physical pain
These are the most used drugs in South Africa.
+ 2.52 million use dagga
+ 250 000 use cocaine
+ 80 000 smoke cigarette
These are some of the suggestions that could prevent teenagers to be involved in drugs
+ Parents should foster a close relationship
+ Establish arrangements and guidelines about what is acceptable behaviour around alcohol and drugs
+ Encourage a healthy approach to life including good food, sports and regular exercise.
The effects that drugs have on the human body
+ Stomach ulcers
+ Constipation or diarrhoea
+ Kidney damage
The social department launched the national anti- substance abuse campaign.
"Social Development is the lead government department in implementing the National Drug Master Plan (NMDP, 2006-2011), which serves as a blue print of national action and programmes to stamp out drug abuse and its associated challenges. The NMDP commits government and all important sectors of society to work together on key areas such as to reduce the demand and supply of illegal drugs through a wide range of coordinated action from national to local levels. "- The Department of Social Development
People make money out of drugs and yet they do not get caught. South Africans export drugs from countries like Nigeria. All they think about is money and yet they destroy teenagers lives. The youth of South Africa is South Africa's future. Now that these people are destroying the youth .Who will be the future of South
Africa?
If you need help on helping someone to stop their addiction call:
SANCA 24-HOUR HELPLINE 082 264 7000
yea i think these is true becouse i ev once been a victim of drugs,once did things that i now regreat,but there are places you can get help from like support groups as i got help from Philani Support group, its counceling helped me a lot.
ReplyDeleteThe rehab centers and support groups do help on getting the drug addicts back on track with their lives. But mostly it takes commitment from the addict
DeleteDrugs really do distroy our youth . The people who sell these drugs to our youth should be jailed for life sentence
ReplyDeleteI agree Rose, if they do not get life sentence in jail, our youth will suffer , we will end up with a drug addicts country.
Deleteanother influence for youth to use drugs its because most of their role models use drugs.they think that doing so they will that swagg their role models have
ReplyDeleteI agree France, the problem of drugs starts with the celebrities. The youth thinks its cool and right to use drugs, These celebs should atleast promote postive things to the youth.
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