青少年吸毒问题(Teens and drugs).ppt

Teens and Drugs Trainspotting(英国电影《猜火车》一群吸毒青年的颓废生活)  本片描述了苏格兰爱丁堡一群吸毒青年垃圾式的生活现状。　　马克?瑞登（伊云?麦葵格饰）是一个十足的颓废青年，和一群狐朋狗友过着无所事事的生活，他们坑蒙拐骗、吸毒，共同养着一个父不详的婴儿，荒唐、堕落。　　某次吸毒的意外，婴儿死了，对马克带来很大的震撼；马克和好友土豆抢劫被抓，土豆坐牢，马克勒令戒毒。　　戒毒成功的马克成为房地产经济，开始过正常人的生活。然而，马克并没有摆脱过去的阴影，以前的朋友再次找到他，扰乱了他的生活，这使他不胜其烦，他决定彻底摆脱他们 BackgroundIn a new report on drug, alcohol and tobacco use among teens in the U.S., the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University finds that 75% of all high school students have used alcohol, tobacco or either legal or illicit drugs and that 20% of these adolescents are addicted. Reasons teenagers take drugsYoung people use drugs for similar reasons that adults do – to change how they feel because they want to feel better or different. Reasons may include:Enjoyment,Environment,Curiosity,The defence mechanism,Natural rebellion,Promotion and availability,Cost. Reasons teenagers take drugsEnjoymentDespite all the concerns about illicit drug use and the attendant lifestyle by young people, it is probably still the case that the lives of most young people are centred on school, home and employment and that most drug use is restricted to the use of tobacco and alcohol. They may adopt the demeanour, fashion and slang of a particular subculture including the occasional or experimental use of illegal drugs without necessarily adopting the lifestyle.Even so, the evidence of drug use within youth culture suggests that the experience of substances is often pleasurable rather than negative and damaging. So probably the main reason why young people take drugs is that they enjoy them. Reasons teenagers take drugsEnvironmentMany young people live in communities which suffer from multiple deprivation, with high unemployment, low quality housing and where the surrounding infra-structure of local services is fractured and poorly resourced. In such communities drug supply and use often th