| The rate of teenagers getting involved with different | | | | from being deemed as the stage of curiosity, |
| kinds of drugs is escalating at an alarming rate. Even | | | | adolescence is also considered to be a time of |
| though governments and other agencies are trying | | | | turbulence and adjustment. Sometimes, teenagers fall |
| their best to educate teenagers and implement | | | | into the trap of drug abuse because of peer |
| programs to spread information about the harmful | | | | pressure and the need to belong to social circles. |
| effects of drugs, many teenagers still fall into its evil | | | | As mentioned earlier, the stage of adolescence is a |
| trap. | | | | stage that needs the feeling of acceptance and |
| One of the major reasons why teenagers are very | | | | belonging. Teen parties can become a haven for |
| susceptible to drug usage and abuse is because they | | | | inappropriate experimentation with alcohol and is |
| are in the life stage of exploration and | | | | often served and given to teens without limit. |
| experimentation. The curiosity of an individual is said | | | | More often than not, teenagers experience their first |
| to be at its highest point during the adolescent years. | | | | experience with drugs when they are in the company |
| Many glue-sniffing cases have been reported and | | | | of their friends. Some are even reluctant to try drugs |
| most of the teenagers involved in such cases simply | | | | but their feelings of righteousness are overpowered |
| said that they did it because they were curious and | | | | by their need to be socially accepted. |
| wanted to feel what it was like to sniff glue. Aside | | | | |