Background
The increasing amount of drug use among teens is an issue that needs to be addressed and prevented. Over 40% of teens admitted to having used illegal drugs at least once by the time they graduated from high school. This relatively high percentage is only increasing, and will only decrease when teens are educated about the harmful effects that illegal drugs can have not only on their bodies, but in every other aspect of their lives.
Vocabulary
Addiction: the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.
Drug: a habit-forming medicinal or illicit substance, especially a narcotic.
Sober: not under the influence of drugs, not intoxicated or drunk.
Relapse: to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.
Withdrawl: the act or process of ceasing to use an addictive drug.
Vocabulary
Addiction: the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.
Drug: a habit-forming medicinal or illicit substance, especially a narcotic.
Sober: not under the influence of drugs, not intoxicated or drunk.
Relapse: to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.
Withdrawl: the act or process of ceasing to use an addictive drug.