Substance abuse is something that has been affecting our country for awhile now. The people most likely to commit substance abuses are between the ages of 18-30, essential college students. Substance abuse is wide spread on college campuses and currently colleges are trying to turn their campuses into dry campuses. We also learned that substance abuse is higher in African American males then an any other group of people. Many students even say that if they had to say why they preformed badly in school it would be because of the substance abuse that they took part in.
Drinking is most common. The effects of alcohol are loss of focus, heavy loss of memory. According to this group most unplanned, unprotected sex occurs after a night of drinking, and that most date rape happens while drunk.
The drug of choice according to mcchilders is marijuana. The first thiing they tried to do was to debunk the positive sterotypes that are attached to weed. Tey told us that unlike what some say there are no acedemic advantages to marijuana. That it causes people to lose focus, loss motivation, apathy and lathargy. The reason they told is this is because some people are under the impression that it inhances your creativity so they would use marijuana thinking that it will help them with school. Many of these substances block neurotransmitters. Street drugs like cocaine unfortunately become a physical need. It make people unable to function without the drug because it becomes the norm for them.
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