Teenage substance use continues to cause major issues in rural areas of the United States. Many community groups and individual citizens put programs into motion to help keep teenagers from abusing drugs. In my hometown teenagers who abuse drugs continues to rise and nobody will step up and take a stand to help prevent teenagers who abuse drugs. Although, some organizations try to lower the rate of substance abuse, we need more solutions to help stop substance abuse. Our Community needs to develop a plan to help decrease teenage substance abuse. Only one organization in our community consistently provides a program to help prevent substance abuse. The Breckinridge County Coalition for Change continues to lead the effort in preventing teenage
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For example Relay for Life raises awareness and money to help cure cancer once a year. Three nights out of the year we hold a teenage substance abuse walk. One night during the spring, one night during the summer, and one night during the fall. We would need a large location to hold this event, so I think we should use, the local football field, which contains a track around the football field for the walk and bleachers for people to sit. Also, we would need to plan around other events such as the Relay for Life event, football games, other school events and holidays. The event could last from five o’clock at night until twelve o’clock at night. How would we pay for this event? We could ask local businesses to sponsor the event and donate items to auction off at the end of the night. Without donations from local businesses we will not stay under the one hundred dollar budget. People who believe in this cause could volunteer to help run the event. We could invite families affected by substance abuse to join us in creating a solution for teenage substance abuse. We will need to sell food and drinks to help raise money for the cause and at the end of the night we will auction off all the items donated by local businesses to raise even more …show more content…
“Consistent enforcement related to prevalence of daily and weekly smoking in secondary schools in Wales and lower levels of perceived smoking among Scottish students” (Adams 18). Effective policies do work and our police department continues to develop effective policies to combat its number one goal, which is to limit substance abuse around the county for all ages of people. If we can stop substance abuse among adults, then we can stop substance abuse among teenagers, but teenagers need education on the effects of substance abuse. When I graduated from Breckinridge County High School I only knew a few consequences of abusing drugs. I taught myself on the consequences after I graduated and that should not happen. We need to educate teenagers in high school, so when they graduate they understand abusing drugs can hurt them and the people they love. As Senator Mitch McConnell said, “Substance abuse destroys lives. It kills people, increases crime, and robs families of their loved ones. We must work harder to save our children, our friends, and our neighbors from this scourge” (McConnell
For example Relay for Life raises awareness and money to help cure cancer once a year. Three nights out of the year we hold a teenage substance abuse walk. One night during the spring, one night during the summer, and one night during the fall. We would need a large location to hold this event, so I think we should use, the local football field, which contains a track around the football field for the walk and bleachers for people to sit. Also, we would need to plan around other events such as the Relay for Life event, football games, other school events and holidays. The event could last from five o’clock at night until twelve o’clock at night. How would we pay for this event? We could ask local businesses to sponsor the event and donate items to auction off at the end of the night. Without donations from local businesses we will not stay under the one hundred dollar budget. People who believe in this cause could volunteer to help run the event. We could invite families affected by substance abuse to join us in creating a solution for teenage substance abuse. We will need to sell food and drinks to help raise money for the cause and at the end of the night we will auction off all the items donated by local businesses to raise even more …show more content…
“Consistent enforcement related to prevalence of daily and weekly smoking in secondary schools in Wales and lower levels of perceived smoking among Scottish students” (Adams 18). Effective policies do work and our police department continues to develop effective policies to combat its number one goal, which is to limit substance abuse around the county for all ages of people. If we can stop substance abuse among adults, then we can stop substance abuse among teenagers, but teenagers need education on the effects of substance abuse. When I graduated from Breckinridge County High School I only knew a few consequences of abusing drugs. I taught myself on the consequences after I graduated and that should not happen. We need to educate teenagers in high school, so when they graduate they understand abusing drugs can hurt them and the people they love. As Senator Mitch McConnell said, “Substance abuse destroys lives. It kills people, increases crime, and robs families of their loved ones. We must work harder to save our children, our friends, and our neighbors from this scourge” (McConnell