Den!al and Despair Covers the pareNts due to the Growth of tEen druGs Abu$ers

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/08/16/teens.substance.abuse.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch

In this article, the writer discussed about the significant growth in the number of drug abusing among the teenagers. From the survey, it is known that there is 61% of the high school students are using the drugs. This is a surprising increase, compared to year of 2002, whose percentage only 44%. In my opinion, this situation shows that the mentality of the teenagers have been broken down as the time passed.
Firstly, why do they want to use the drugs? Is that because they do not know what is the side effect of it? No! The teenagers do know that the drugs are really bad for their health. They will destroy their bodies soon, or later. But what actually make them want to try such things?
From the survey, I can conclude that most of them are taking the drugs due to the peer pressure. They may start when their best friends offer them the drugs. As they are their best friends, the person will feel very difficult to say no. If his belief that ‘drugs are unhealthy’ is not strong enough, the person will be trapped in drugs abusing.
Some of them are very popular among the students. They will mostly do not want to be called as a loser. Thus, they will accept any challenges that are given to him, even if the challenge is something very dangerous, like drugs.
And of course, the very famous cause is depression. Some students can hardly accept their achievement in the school. They always think that they are so stupid until they are stressed and depressed. When they are depressed, they can’t think well, so they just take the drugs that promised a temporary happiness, without even care about the effect.
The parents are very concerned about this thing in the beginning. But lately, the growth is even worse. The parents’ efforts are valueless. Their hopes are starting to vanish. They now don’t even know what to do, and think that the effort of the schools to make them drugs-free are pointless, just a piece of crap. They don’t know what they have to do to prevent their children from the drugs abusing. At the very end, they are in despair; lose their hope that is used to be put on their children.
So now, do you still want to take those drugs?