Drug Abuse and its Impact on Middle Childhood Children and Adolescents
Sarad Basnet
Cerritos Collge
Child Development 110
Drug Abuse and its Impact on Middle Childhood Children and Adolescents Back in Nepal, my neighbour Eku, has been into drugs for a long time. He was 13 when started smoking Marijuana and even Drinking alcohol. Me and my other friends as a child were constantly reminded by our parents to not to be like him and even not to talk to him. He was five years older than me. I remember the day, it was my 16th birthday we were celebrating in our house when a couple of Police vans came just across the street from my house and arrested Eku. He was charged for so many crimes including drug smuggling, robbery, …show more content…
According to National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), people usually start drug abuse on teenage (NIDA, 2014). The belief middle childhood children have about drugs certainly plays a part in determining whether he/she takes drugs later in his/her life. The same institute also says, By the time they are seniors, almost 70 percent of high school students will have tried alcohol, half will have taken an illegal drug, nearly 40 percent will have smoked a cigarette, and more than 20 percent will have used a prescription drug for a nonmedical purpose (NIDA, 2014) . Even the children in highschool who must be well aware of consequences from the education they get in their school have such a horrible stats. It clearly suggests they had some belief about drugs like, drug is not dangerous, it won 't matter if you take it once or twice, or it is fun when you take it and most importantly taking it on peer pressure being unable to say no to a friend. It is very important that they change their beliefs or have a better belief that drugs are bad for them. The book The Developing Person has testimony of a boy saying that if he doesn 't smoke it doesn 't make him a real man. The same book also says American boys use steroids to get better body because they feel having better body is cool (Berger, 2016). These kind of beliefs must be changed in Middle Childhood or even sooner with proper guidance and counseling so that children don 't start getting into drug from middle childhood or early adolescence
Sarad Basnet
Cerritos Collge
Child Development 110
Drug Abuse and its Impact on Middle Childhood Children and Adolescents Back in Nepal, my neighbour Eku, has been into drugs for a long time. He was 13 when started smoking Marijuana and even Drinking alcohol. Me and my other friends as a child were constantly reminded by our parents to not to be like him and even not to talk to him. He was five years older than me. I remember the day, it was my 16th birthday we were celebrating in our house when a couple of Police vans came just across the street from my house and arrested Eku. He was charged for so many crimes including drug smuggling, robbery, …show more content…
According to National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), people usually start drug abuse on teenage (NIDA, 2014). The belief middle childhood children have about drugs certainly plays a part in determining whether he/she takes drugs later in his/her life. The same institute also says, By the time they are seniors, almost 70 percent of high school students will have tried alcohol, half will have taken an illegal drug, nearly 40 percent will have smoked a cigarette, and more than 20 percent will have used a prescription drug for a nonmedical purpose (NIDA, 2014) . Even the children in highschool who must be well aware of consequences from the education they get in their school have such a horrible stats. It clearly suggests they had some belief about drugs like, drug is not dangerous, it won 't matter if you take it once or twice, or it is fun when you take it and most importantly taking it on peer pressure being unable to say no to a friend. It is very important that they change their beliefs or have a better belief that drugs are bad for them. The book The Developing Person has testimony of a boy saying that if he doesn 't smoke it doesn 't make him a real man. The same book also says American boys use steroids to get better body because they feel having better body is cool (Berger, 2016). These kind of beliefs must be changed in Middle Childhood or even sooner with proper guidance and counseling so that children don 't start getting into drug from middle childhood or early adolescence