Drugs & Alchohol (Ashly)

Do you think drug and alcohol use is a problem for teens today or do you see it as just part of growing up? When does it become problem? Often use can lead to life changing consequences (over-dose, sexual assault, DUI, etc.) should anything be done to help prevent that?

I think it is a problem but pretty much every teen now a days does drugs or drink alcohol, its just something everyone does now. And everyone’s getting used to it already. I think it is a part of growing up as much as you get older the more you start to change you start doing different stuff or stuff you couldn’t do before. Some people start getting addicted and there life dosent go very well. Sometimes you don’t know what your doing and it can lead to you doing stuff you didn’t want to do or mean to do, like rapping someone, killing someone, and just other stuff that’s not so good. I think people that start getting addicted do need help and should get help because people like that cant just be let loose going around doing those kind of stuff. But if it’s a teen who’s just having fun or only does it once in a while then they should be left alone cause there not really doing anything bad they just want to have fun and try new things in life.