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Teens doing drugs is a horrible thing and is such a good topic to talk about. I am really against teens or anyone for that matter over dosing on drugs or doing it every single day. It is stupid for them to do it in the first place. People who do drugs every day can and may get addicted. That is the sad part. Once someone is addicted they can’t stop. They want more and more. Then one day they end up in the hospital being forced to go to rehab. The withdrawal symptoms are unbelievable. According to the National Teen and Drug Survey about 62 percent of teens say more kids are using marijuana at school than in the past. That is a shockingly huge number. It may be right because the media and other kids show off to and make drug use look cool. The only way for drug use to go down in my opinion is to get the right education and make the right choices.

- Tatiana

Drug usage amongst teenagers is not a strange or new phenomenon. As Ruben explored in the recent Switched-On article, there are more and more ways for teenagers to get their hands on a variety of drugs and oftentimes their friends are involved in getting them into drugs. Some people may be taking drugs to avoid their problems in reality while others are just in to seem cool and think it’s fine to get their friends involved too — well, to tell the truth, it’s not. Drugs will not help you magically solve all your problems, it’s only adding to it. Drugs are not cool because it’s damaging your health and it could lead you to do things you will end up regretting so don’t join the bandwagon of drug usage. In fact, try and get your friends out of it — talk to them about their problems, find local resources to help them deal with the withdrawal effects of drugs, and give them your support during the quitting process. Start your own bandwagon — a non-druggies one.

- Vivian

So just recently I was talking to a friend about one of her relationship problems. She told me that her boyfriend (of about a year) likes to smoke weed. He loves to do it with his friends. She on the other hand is totally against anyone doing drugs and alcohol. I mean I am too, so I understand where she is coming from. She completely hates her boyfriend smoking weed. At times she would beg him not to do it. He would be like, “Ok, I won’t.” Then a couple weeks later he is off doing it again. Once he even made a promise to her saying that he wouldn’t smoke as often. Maybe like twice or month or so (I don’t remember exactly what was said). Then my friend was telling me that he plans on doing it again soon. They had a mini argument. He was like, “I’m 18 and I do what I want.” Now that upset her quite a bit. She has no clue what to think or do. She was telling me her options: break up with him because of him doing such things (because possibly he will never change) and because she just plain hates the fact that she doesn’t want to be someone who does things like that or just accept him for what he does. He hasn’t gotten hurt or anything…. any suggestions?

- Tatiana