Drugs and Alcohol

The problem of alcohol and drug abuse is of high importance nowadays. It is especially acute among young people and this fact horrifies most of all. Today the statistics shows deplorable numbers of young people, drinking and taking drugs. What is more terrible is that more and more young people start drinking and taking drugs. It is high time to stop this epidemic if our society does not want to loose its future. Alcohol abuse is itself very harmful for a human organism, especially for a young one as it destroys brain cells and other organs. However, the harmful effect on different apparatuses is not the only harm brought by alcohol abuse. The consequences of alcoholic intoxication, as well as of drug usage, are far more ruinous for both the abuser and his environment. Under the influence of drugs young people experience new feelings and are ready to go into the deep end.

They are more aggressive and uncontrolled. The majority of rapes and dangerous sexual intercourse happen under the influence of drugs and alcohol (Walcott 51). What are the reasons of such widespread alcohol dependence? The major reason of this abuse is the psychological instability of teenagers. Young people begin to drink at about thirteen years old when their psychology is unstable and their main aim is to assert themselves. Drugs and alcohol help them to feel free and independent and to do the things that are forbidden for them. Usually being controlled by their parents, they long to break al the rules and bans. It is proved by the fact that more than 10 million drinkers in the USA are between 12 and 20(Young People and Alcohol). Unfortunately, I experienced the effect of alcohol and have first-hand knowledge of this feeling of lack of restraint. When I was about 13-teen years old, I experimented with alcohol. In fact, this was peer pressure that caused me to give in, but I liked it. When I drank I had the sensations of light-headiness, with lost inhibition to do anything.