Informative+Research+Product

Peter-- great start! I'd like you to break up some of your explanations that group factors together. This includes your explanation of mental illness and other disorders such as ADHD. Finally, please add your citations to your evidence and quotes.

** -Peter-- ** ** Informative Research Product Organizer **
 * = ** Research Topic: teenage drug and alcohol abuse, and their conflicts ** ||


 * ** Focusing Statement: There are lot of researches, experiments and launching programs to collect the data from teenagers to prevent the teenage drug, alcohol addiction. Yet, even with programs such as New Vision Youth Communication Center, the program that try to solve teenager's conflicts, the average age of using drug becomes lower and lower every year. Worse part is, we are not sure about proper number of teenagers who are in addiction, and why do they start using drug. ** ||


 * ** Essential Background Information for Introduction: **
 * Once teenagers having a conflict and when it reach at limit point, teenager start be active about ‘how to solve the conflict’, rather that is bad way or good way. Not only conflicts, they start become active when their peer pressure becomes too high. But to think about it, often teenager become ‘active’, the result is shocking; they solve their conflict with self suicide, taking a drug, heavy drinking or damaging others such as arson. Yet, most popular one in this country is, using drug and heavy drinking. With no accurate information about drugs and how it effect to one’s body, it will lead them to the addiction. If someone thinks that you can cure the addiction easily, it is a big mistake. Addiction is the complex and development disease. Addiction only appears when all other factors combine together and whenever the result is depressing, the addiction will be start. Not only factors matter, the age matters too. Younger you took, greater the risk facts. When adolescences took drug, it affects on their brain which is not developed completely. As a result, it will bring the other mental illness such as ADHD. Even it seems like incurable when adolescences took the drugs, but it is easier to cure when they are young. However, often time parents or addicted person does not know that. With my research, it will help to give accurate information about using drug and how to recovery when one is in addiction. ** ||


 * ** Potential Hook/Grabber ( ** Story, anecdote, quote about your issue**): As light becomes brighter, the shadow becomes deeper. If there is a good thing, it also has bad side. In our society, we do get some stresses from work, friendship, family, environment, and even from self consciousness. To take out our stresses, we need to something like playing sports, video games, or hang out with best friends. But, sometimes, the way of solving our stresses goes wrong direction; using drug, bond, or drinking alcohol. As one fall in to wrong direction of taking out their emotions or stresses, it becomes worse when they addicted by it. But yet, even we want to help addicted teenagers, we do not know the actual reason why they started. And this is the reason why we are on road to find out the conflicts that our teenagers having, and following solutions.** ||
 * ** Topic 1: Risk factors of the drug ** ||
 * ** Explanation **
 * It is a development stage, younger you took, greater the risk facts. ** || ** Evidence/Quotes: **
 * If you start using drug at younger age, it gives more chance to addicted by drug and increase risk of the later life too **
 * ** “Research shows that the earlier a person begins to use drugs, the greater the risk for addiction later in life.” **
 * ** “Teens’ brains are influences on a developing brain that can increase a person’ vulnerability to later drug abuse and addiction.” ** ||
 * ** Explanation **
 * It also affects on genetics; may affected by family member. ** || ** Evidence/Quotes: **
 * If someone in your family used the drug or get addicted before, one have more chance that addiction. **
 * ** “You may have heard about that drug and alcohol addictions can run in families.” **
 * ** “Having a family who has experienced addiction does mean that a person may be at increased risk of becoming addicted if he or she chooses to take drugs in the first place. ** ||
 * ** Explanation **
 * It cause the mental illness, ADHD. Also, when it overlaps, the risk will be doubles up ** || ** Evidence /Quotes: **
 * As you addicted by drug, at when it goes long term – effect, it may brings the mental illness call ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). **
 * ** “Mental disorder, such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, and others, may put people at greater risk for using drugs and becoming addicted.” **
 * ** “The overlapping effects of a mental disorder and a drug may increased the risk for addiction” ** ||


 * ** Topic 2: Teen’s Decision Making and drug addiction; how they start it **
 * Radical changes of the adolescence and society in this days brings bad effect to teenagers ** ||
 * ** Explanation **
 * For teens as school and other activities take you away from home, you may spend more time with your peers than you do with your family. As you become more independent, your peers naturally play a greater role in your life. As time pass and get close to your friend, it is hard to resist your friend which becomes a pressure ** || ** Evidence/Quotes: **
 * ** “During early adolescence in particular, teenagers are drawn to the immediate rewards of a potential choice and are less attentive to the possible risks. Second, teenagers in general are still learning to control their impulses, to think ahead, and to resist pressure from others.” ** ||
 * ** Explanation **
 * The radical changes of the adolescents in this day. Peer relationships become very important during this time; friends may exert more influence than parents and other adults. But the problem is, when adolescents meet the friends who led others to having an experience of using drug and heavy drinking. ** || ** Evidence/Quotes: **
 * ** “Adolescence is a time of change. The onset of puberty radically changes the adolescent's physique and alters the way adolescents think of themselves. Peer relationships become very important during this time, and friends may exert more influence than parents and other adults. In addition, adolescents have much greater mobility than they had as children and have monetary resources to try many new and different things. Thus, it is not surprising that for many young people, adolescence is marked by experimentation with drugs and alcohol. For example, young people between the ages of 15 and 19 years old comprise the largest group of new drinkers in the United States, and almost 50% of adolescents who use marijuana say they first used it when they were 13 years old or younger.” ** ||


 * ** Topic 3: Dealing with addiction; detail about addiction and signs ** ||
 * ** Explanation **
 * Physical addiction means when one’s body actually becomes dependent on a particular substance. ** || ** Evidence/Quotes: **
 * ** “Means building a tolerance to that substance one took, so that a person needs a larger does than ever before to get the same effects. Someone who is physically addicted and stop using a substance like drugs, alcohol, or cigarettes may experience withdrawal symptoms. Common symptoms of withdrawal are diarrhea, shaking, and generally felling awful.” **
 * ** Physical signals are changes in sleeping habits, felling shaky or sick when trying to stop, needing to take more of the substance to get same effect, and changes in eating habit, including weight loss or gain. ** ||
 * ** Explanation **
 * Psychological addiction happens when the craving for a drug are psychological or emotional. People who are physiological addicted feel overcome by desire to have a drug. ** || ** Evidence/Quotes: **
 * ** “A person crosses the line between abuse and addiction when he or she is no longer trying the drug to have fun or get high, but has come to depend on it. His or her whole life centers on the need for the drug. An addicted person no longer feels like there is a choice in taking a substance.” **
 * ** Psychological signals are use of drug or alcohol as a way to forget problems or to relax, withdrawal or keeping secret from family and friend. ** ||

Work Citations
 * ** Topic 4: Preventing Drug addiction ** ||
 * ** Explanation **
 * It is a complex disease; no single factor will cause the addiction. When several factors such as environmental, age conflict combines together, it will bring the addiction. ** || ** Evidence/Quotes: **
 * ** “No single factor can predict who will become addicted to drugs. Addiction is influenced by a tangle of factors involving genes, environment, and age of first use.” **
 * ** “The developmental years might also present opportunities for resiliency and for receptivity to intervention that can alter the course of addiction. The knowledge that we knows combined with better understanding of the motivational processes at work in the young brain, can be applied to prevent drug abuse from staring or to intervene early to stop it when warning signs emerge. ** ||
 * ** Explanation **
 * If you think you are addicted by drug, don’t hesitate to ask help to NIDA, the //National Institute on Drug Abuse. Not only NIDA, ATLAS and ATHENA will help whenever you need them. It is your choice that asks them help, and let them speak the programs.// ** || ** Evidence/Quotes: **
 * ** “Effective prevention principles can be applied. To guide professionals in helping others, NIDA, in cooperation with prevention scientist, published booklet to guide them.” **
 * ** “Prevention program must “Speak” to their audiences. The ATLAS and ATHENA, two highly successful school program designed specifically male and female teenager athletes address steroid abuse and other unhealthy behaviors. These programs leverage the influence of coaches and peer groups to highlight proper sport nutrition, strength training and other positive alternatives to using drug to improve performance and build confidence.” ** ||

Magill, Elizabeth. //Drug Information for Teens//. Third ed. United States: Omnigraphics, 2011. Print.

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