Drugs and Alcoholism: Why are Teenagers Involved? By: Rhiannon Elliott Adolescence is much like a midpoint in ones life; when a person is neither a kid nor an adult. At this period, teens have passed the age when they were called kids but are not yet qualified to be adults. Teenagers want to think like adults, behave like adults and also start to view themselves as independent beings in decision making. All this hormonal changes …showed first 75 words of 493 total…

…showed last 75 words of 493 total…and lots more. Sadly, in the past year, alcohol and drug usage among teens have increased nationwide .This is apparently because the media, which is responsible for the frivolous information, has increased amount of information about drug abuse, alcoholism and their long and short-term side effects. The internet and web sites are some of the trends that make we teenagers most liable to the addictions of the modern world at an early age. Total words(532)