Underage Drug Abuse!
In Secondary School peer pressure gets harder to deal with, you can be pressured into doing things you don’t want to do but if you do it to much it may become addictive and it may become a part of your life. Young people are age are ‘experimenting’ with alcohol, drugs and cigarettes drugs.
Our advice is to stay away from people who are pressuring you or anyone else into doing something they don’t want to do.
Many people we know drink because they think its ‘cool’ but the only thing they are doing is wrecking their health.
Drugs a definition: a substance that when taken can affect the way you think, speak and your actions. They can come in lots of different forms, liquid, solids and even gases.
Drugs can even change the way you see things. A man who used to take ecstasy said he kept having a hallucination where a huge orange was trying to attack him. Other people have committed suicide whilst on drugs to escape from their torments. A particular case we read about in a newspaper was of a teenager who jumped from the top of a five-story car park; the autopsy showed traces of illegal drugs in his blood.
Some drugs can make you feel panicky and afraid. Sometimes people will have flashback especially if taking LSD where they see or hear things from previous trips. People who take LSD a lot can become mentally ill.
Drugs can effect people in different ways, the most dangerous is hallucinations where people have been known to attack members of there family. Some people even end up killing themselves and others, causing accidents and embarrassing themselves.
Drugs are very dangerous and one in five people die from using drugs for the first time. Don’t take drugs they have severer consequences.
If you need help or have any worries about drugs phone 08000 380 480
Or
0800 917 8765
By Ruth and Rachel
10C
Your local ladies for advice…J…xx