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The Causes That Lead Teenagers Castillo

Research Paper from the year 2008 in the subject Sociology - Children and Youth, grade: 1.5, Mindanao State University, course: Sociology, language: English, comment: There is a need to study the causes that lead teenagers to drug and alcohol abuse in order to find effective solutions to the problem. The community, government, academe, and different organizations would base their programs to help teenagers with problems in drug and alcohol abuse in the aspects that caused the said problem. , abstract: The problems of teenagers involving drug abuse and alcohol abuse are primarily caused by stressful life events, peer influence, and failure of parents to take their children away from harmful activities. Besides, drug abuse and alcohol abuse might lead to sexual abuse or molestation and teenage pregnancy as well as the commission of violent crimes. This paper is aimed at studying these factors for the benefit of the government, academe, church, organizations and other institutions, the members of which are advocates of helping teenagers who have problems on alcohol and drug abuse.