Research Paper on:
Teenagers and Drug Abuse from a Social Perspective

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most pressing problems of our time. This abuse is particularly concerning in regard to our young people. Not only is drug use counterproductive to the family and school  environments, in many cases it is linked to criminal and deviant behavior. Both illicit drugs and alcohol fall under the classification of drug abuse and each presents tremendous problem  for the youth as well as society. What many in our society fail to realize, however, is that our youth typically abuse many other types of substances as well.  Common household solvents are one example of this expanded form of abuse. Regardless of the substance being abused, however, drug abuse is inextricably linked with many of the  social problems we face today. Drug abusers all too often turn to crime to pay for their habits, they fail academically, and they fail in society as a whole.  Drug abusers can become violent or engage in a variety of equally disturbing antisocial behaviors. The question of what triggers drug abuse among our youth, however, is not  so easily answered. Nor is the question of what constitutes effective intervention. The problems associated with drug abuse can indeed be quite  severe. In "Antisocial Behavior by Young People : A Major New Review" authors Michael Rutter, Henri Giller, and Ann Hagell (a child psychiatrist, a criminologist and a social psychologist)  observe, for example, that in its more severe manifestations the abuse of drugs can be linked to destructive tendencies which target either property, people or animals. Drug abusers often  steal as it suits their purpose and have no regard for the rights and rules of others. They sometimes show a lack of remorse and empathy. Rutter, Giller,