What can a student do to avoid drug abuse?

Question

Please help me w/ this!.. Because I have to make an essay about this..

Answer 1

The simple answer, don't take drugs. I have never smoked a cigarette or marijuana or taken any drugs because I have always had an abhorrence to those things. I have been to parties where a joint was passed around. I always said no thanks and passed it to the next person. I don't care what anyone thinks either. I have seen first hand what Speed and LSD have done to people. Yet I know that people are peer conscious and don't seem to have the power to say NO. They rationalize that a small joint won't harm. Drugs do a lot of damage, but the solution is to legalize drugs. A kid can't go into a liquor store to by booze, but he can pick up crack at any street corner in most urban centers. If kids are brought up to see what a poison these drugs are to their lives, they will be more prone to say no. Some kids, like myself, had their eyes open. They didn't need to be told how bad it was. The secret is to never start, and to hell with the peer pressure. I have been around drugs and probably have inhaled marijuana as second hand smoke. I can recognize the smell anywhere. Yet for all that, I have always maintained an utter abhorrence to drugs. The strong have no problem saying no. It is the weak that have to be encouraged. IN the end we have to realize that nobody is twisting our arms when we make our choices. The problem is that choices have consequences. So if a teen knows the full blown up version of the consequence, he is more apt to make the proper choice.

Answer 2

Your reasons can be...
avoid students who you know do drugs. You can talk about avoiding these kids and being less likely to be approached.
Get involved in a sport or something that occupies your time that way you focus on something positve for your body and develop a support group with coaches and other players.
Be aware of the drugs out there and learn the effects of them in order to avoid them.
Raise awareness by starting a club...
Just a few ideas... good luck on your essay and get started early.. then have an adult read it over before you turn it in! :)

Answer 3

just say no! you have to have will power, you have to be confident enough to turn drugs down, not give into peer pressure. even if a student has to work and go to school it can be exhausting but drugs will not solve that. yeah some may make you stay awake but you dont realize the after effects it can cause and well it can cause some maor health issues.. I'm a student, a mom, I work and i take care of my 90 year old grandmother so if i can do it so can everyone else!

Answer 4

Seriously? You have to be in high school....sorry to break this to you...but students, especially university students...the majority played around with some sort of drug at some point. It's a paradoxical question....to avoid drugs, you should't be a university student....so how can a stupid avoid drugs? You can't....but to avoid drug abuse...you gotta use your head and be smart

Answer 5

A student can choose not to start taking drugs in the first place and find new friends or other ways of having fun or cope with situations.

Answer 6

I was the only kid in "my group" when I was in school that didn't do any drugs.... my friends did, but somehow I managed to stay out of it.....
The best I can tell you is to always believe in yourself. Don't ever let someone tell you that you're not "good enoulgh", or not "cool" enoulgh, etc......... You should always stand up for who you are, and have the self esteem to say "I am who I am, and if you don't like it, go mess with someone else!" If you believe in yourself enoulgh, it really doesn't matter what the "cool" people think.... Most of them are idiots anyway..... A person that really believes in him/herself enoulgh to face the pressure and JUST SAY NO..... or.........H E L L N O to anyone pushing them to do something they don't believe is right has the strength to lead others in the same battle against peer pressure. The hardest thing in the world to do is to be yourself...... but it's also the easiest. So my best advice is to avoid the problem if possible (don't hang with THAT crowd)....... but if it follows you, believe in yourself, have the heart, and the self esteem to say "If I'm not good enoulgh the way I am, you're not good enoulgh for me".
Stand up for what you believe in, and others will follow.

Answer 7

Students take drugs maybe because of where they were raised and who raised them. Also, I think students may take drugs because they have peer pressure or they wanna commit suicide. Or, they want to gain center attention from the student body.

Answer 8

Take an active possition against it! If someone is publicly activly involved in something, they will feel a greater responsibility to do it or not do it themselves. also, interview people who have lost a loved one due to drug abuse, they are everywhere!

Answer 9

To avoid drugs at all. Make the right choices, even if your friends do it. It's all about choices.

Answer 10

The drug addiction prevention strategy received a positive assessment

International experts from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction gave a positive assessment to Estonia’s national strategy for drug addiction prevention.

The experts pointed out that the positive aspects of the strategy are its transparency and long-term nature. Planning 3 or 4 years ahead is not enough to influence the drug situation. In order to achieve better results, the Estonian strategy extends to 2012. Furthermore, the strengths of the Estonian strategy include specific action plans and the amounts necessary for their implementation. The Estonian strategy pays a lot of attention to monitoring and assessment.

Although in the EU Member States the reduction of damage is a natural component of most strategies, the results of the study show that in the strategies of new EU Member States and candidate countries the concept of damage reduction has been taken into account in the strategies of some countries only, including in the strategies of Estonia and the Czech Republic. As regards the Estonian strategy, the international experts recognised the fact that it puts emphasis on the combined approach of combating drug use and its consequences in prisons.

The authors of the report found it positive that the government pays more attention to combating drugs. On October 30, 2003 the national strategy for drug addiction prevention was submitted to the Estonian Government for the first time and currently the strategy implementation costs are being determined. After the action plan and the expenses have been determined, the strategy will be ready for second submission to the Government.

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction carried out a similar evaluation of the drug strategies of all countries acceding to the EU, thus allowing Estonia to compare its drug prevention measures with those of other countries.

Drug situation in 2002

The Estonian Drug Monitoring Centre has prepared a report reflecting the drug situation in 2002. The said report indicates that the consumption of synthetic drugs, primarily amphetamine and ecstasy, is becoming a serious public health problem. In 2002 the amount of confiscated stimulants of the amphetamine type increased by 40 %. The amount of confiscated ecstasy tablets rose from 3,759 to 12,019.

The number of persons dying as a result of drug use and of persons needing emergency medical care due to overdose has grown considerably. The growth tendency of the said indicators is partly due to the fact that in 2002 fentanyl and methylfentanyl appeared on the illegal drug market.

It should be pointed out that in 2002 more attention was paid to damage (deaths caused by infectious diseases related to drugs and overdoses) reduction and the measures for improving public health were strengthened remarkably. Considerable attention was paid to the quality of testing and counselling services and the number of needle exchange points has increased. In 2002, the number of new HIV positive persons has dropped.

The purpose of the report, which is already the third one, is to give a reliable picture of the drug situation in order to allow the development of a research-based drug policy in Estonia. The report is designed primarily for experts and decision-makers in the field of drugs. However, it was admitted that better mapping of the situation calls for even more detailed information like a study for determining the number of drug addicts, studies for assessing the effectiveness, efficiency and impact of projects/programs (including treatment programs) and an anti-drug treatment register, which would give a true picture of those seeking anti-drug treatment, their characteristic features and the measures taken to solve the problem.