How hard is it to give up drugs?

Question

im doing a research project at school and my topic is about teen drug addictions and this is one of my research questions. Oh yeah, just on your own personal opinion, what could be done to reduce teens trying out drugs?

Answer 1

pot isnt hard at all.

Its faily easy to stop cold turkey

Answer 2

it's very hard to quit the compulsion of drug addiction. it's a bio-imbalance that could be best pre-vented in teens with education at a young age. the problem is that parents seem to only know how to tell their kids to just say no. what they need to know is how to spot addictive personality in them at a young age and then follow up with a counselor who could properly educate them. its difficult to educate them. when the peer pressure comes and they have to make that decision whether to use or not they often make other choices. AND YES WEED IS VERY ADDICTIVE!

Answer 3

It depends what drugs....the legal ones are some of the hardest (alcohol, tobacco, perscription), where as some illegal drugs have virtually no withdrawl symptoms. As far as hard drugs go, I have known lots of people, including close friends, get screwed up and been changed mentally forever. It is very hard to stop something that controls your feelings and body, if you feel like **** (pain and paranoia and craving) and you know a hit is gonna make it all go away...it's so easy to take it. People get addicted without realising, one day they wake up and find they cant function without drugs, and every addict thinks they wont get hooked. Everyone has they're addictions, and not all of them can be defined in a pill, addiction is a habitual behaviour, in any activity, that goes beyond having fun and becomes destructive. People will always want to try drugs, because they make you feel good, and there is no way that is gonna change. Education doesn't work because it never has, prohibition doesn't work....I have no idea's on how to convince teens (or anyone) not to try them.

Feel free to use my life experience in your school project, bleak as it is

Answer 4

Hope you aren't talking about marijuana in this research project. Weed isn't addictive :]

With the others... depends on the drug.

Answer 5

I used to smoke pot, and one day didn't want to do it anymore, and haven't done it since. Smoking cigarettes on the other hand is another story. The only real way to get a teen to maybe not do drugs is show them what happens when you do it, but other than that, its there mind and they have to make that choice on there own.