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    by Jamie Andrews

    How illegal drugs affect the health of young people: Illegal drugs drastically affect your health, when children are young short term symptoms aren't so bad so they think drugs won't affect them, but when they are older ...read more

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    by Max Turner

    Im writing this article because i want people to know what it is like to be a teenager, and to be exposed to drugs. I am from Palm Beach Florida, a place where everyone has BMW's and Bentleys, a place where you can get you...read more

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    by Potato King

    Being a teenager in a society where immorality is the new morality, I have many friends who do drugs, I've been around drugs, and I've seen the effects they have upon people. I've never done anything in my life, and as lon...read more

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    by Yvette Nutter

    "Parents: The Anti Drug" Unless you're comatose, you've seen the ad campaigns on t.v., in magazines, on billboards, and heard them on the radio. Personally, I feel they are the biggest waste of the taxpayer's money besid...read more

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    by Jennifer Smith

    Ecstasy is funny like that. People talk about its danger, so lethal, so horrible. They've never touched the stars. I was sitting there staring at the walls. Everything was blue, mania. The music was on, but all ...read more

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    by Scott Heritage

    Everyone in society today is exposed to drugs and drug use on an almost everyday basis both on the television and media and in real life. Drugs are now much more accessible by everyone than they were even as little as 10 y...read more

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    by Sangay Glass

    I was a teen that survived the 1970's. If you've ever seen That Seventies Show the drug use was true for most kids my age in suburbia. We experimented, took risk, and fortunately most of us grew out of it by the time we...read more

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    by Brittnee Dunning

    Yes, drugs can lead you down a horrible path, but not all cases lead that way in fact most do not. Teenagers' peers convince them that doing drugs is fun and okay. I did and still am growing up in a house where drug use is...read more

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    by Nick Lewis

    It is far too easy for people who have never dabbled in drugs to pass opinions and make assumptions. There are vast differnces both in the type of drugs used and the level of which they are used and to label everyone who t...read more

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    by Ugochukwu Magnus

    In recent times,drugs and alchol have become the quick fit for self-esteem,inadequacy,inde pendence and fear about the future.Therapists have continuously observe increase in number of adolescent that are co...read more

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    by Kyle Futia

    SMALL MINDED PEOPLE? I have had the worst experience of my life when i was taking drungs and drinking alcohol. Everyone has their own opinion about drug users but they can only assume what we have faced and how we have ...read more

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    by Jan Stratton

    Is it possible for people to open their eyes and look around them and see what drugs do to lives around them.If you grow up in a situation where you see with your own eyes someones life go down the toilet because they are ...read more

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    by Angela Winnick

    This is my first time writing on helium, but here goes. I was reading some of the other related articles, and I think I may have some valuable input on this topic as I am a recovering drug addict myself. When I say drugs...read more

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    by Danielle Morgan

    Well done Sam Shewry, you made a very valid point about people being so quick to put you down just because your on or have used drugs. I think people can be narrow minded about something they don't really know anything ab...read more

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    by Alexa Mccutcheon

    It's funny, just last night my husband and I watched "Cartoon all stars don't do drugs". It was made in the eighties I believe. I first saw it when I was maybe five years old, and it left a real mark on me. The mark being....read more

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