Fewer Teens Getting Lit, New Study Reveals

I'm a student with friends like this. It's bordem. It's school. It's stress. Its where we live. It's lack of basic needs. It's growing up with negative influence surrounding us at every corner. It's giving up because there's no dreams /goals we can accomplish at instant access which fogs value for everything. It's lies we've been taught about Christopher Columbus in elementary or middle school. The system of education and perspective of others that are not in our position to give opinions or decisions but have full access to it. Not trying to influence it but their mindset is, "Better to be gone than in reality where nothing's fair or right because no one cares."

I often feel alone when students talk about drug use and abuse and I want to change that!

I've spoken to a lot of fellow students, most of which partake in smoking and drugs. From what I gathered, boredom is a leading cause for their actions. They have no hobbies or extra curricular activities to occupy them. As it stands now, however, schools are bombarding students with more work than necessary and it is consuming far more hours than necessary. With an average of six classes a day, and I am speaking now from experience, and a required minimum of two hours of homework per class there is literally no time for healthy social interaction, sleep, or any activities good or bad. Some may find this beneficial but they are only looking at a drop in drugs and e-ciggarettes. The stress level of teens has sky rocketed over the years and according to the Amercan Psycological Association students report feeling far more stressed than adults. The obvious cause of this is school, the "second home" of every child for an average of 14 years. The work load of students is not all that has doubled. Teachers are being bombarded with work and stress as well. A teacher's pay is based on their students' test scores, and what does that mean? Students are being taught how to pass tests, not how to see the world from a knowledgable perspective. The kicker of it all is these grades also "rate" a teacher. So, if a teacher that goes out of his or her way to get real knowledge to their students, whether it be by spending hours on well thought out discussions involving their life experiences or simply going over everything in class without assignments, they will be rated less if some of their students do badly. Whereas a far less engaging teacher that gives students a packet with test answers and says to study it for the test, would get a higher rating for supplying pretests rather than valuable knowledge. School is supposed to be encouraging and valuable. It should offer activities to disway the use of drugs and such. But as it stands, school is all consuming, and it is hard to d

I believe that the decrease in use of cigarettes, hukkahs, vape pens, and alcohols has decreased, simply because of how easy it is to get a hold on these things. I think some substance abuse among many young people only occurs because the items are almost always on hand. However, most teens actually seem to do something deliberately wrong, because it makes them feel a little wild. So, because of this, most have moved on to something a little more tricky, and that is marajuana. Other drugs such as cocaine and meth are not thier substance of choice, because they are able to rationalize that those drugs can easily end their lives.

I think in my opinion what caused the significant decrease of the drug abuse and alcohol substances to drop was probably that a lot are seeing damages and physical changes. Also mabey even they are starting to look at there future; husband/wife, kids money? This could be why there actually trying to work away from these things.

Well isn't that a good thing? I mean, doing drugs and alcohol as a teen isn't necessarily healthy. And with the statics proving not much is happening; is better for society and especially the young adults.

I don't think the marijuana will ever go down very much because, unlike the others, it doesn't kill. At least from my findings. But I'm glad to see my generation having more common sense.