National Drug Facts Week is coming, and teens all over the country will be talking. To get the conversation started, NIDA has created a booklet, Drugs: Shatter the Myths, that separates fact from fiction about drug abuse and addiction.
As you’ll notice, the ‘thought’ questions below also appear at the back of the booklet. We want your opinions—so join in the discussion by leaving us a comment. It can be about one of these ideas, or your own.
1. How do you convince a friend who is using drugs that they may be at risk for addiction or other bad consequences even though they feel fine right now?
2. Knowing what we do now, would you make cigarettes illegal if you could?
3. What is the best way to convince you or your friends that prescription drugs can be dangerous when abused— without scaring the people who need them?
4. Do you consider it cheating when athletes use steroids to improve their performance—what should the consequences be?
5. What’s the best way to get messages out to teens?
- Social networks
- TV ads
- Web sites
6. Who should the messages be from?
If we haven’t covered something you want to know more about, go to http://www.teens.drugabuse.gov and enter your topic in the search box – and thanks for sharing!
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Why doesn't the President make smoking illegal in the USA?
Interesting question. What do you think?
How many chemicals are in a cigaret. How many illegal in the USA?
The number of additives varies by company – typically around 100 or 150 (or more). Hopefully none are illegal in the US, but you can check for yourself. The cigarette companies are now required to publicly disclose the chemicals they add – though the exact formulas remain trade secrets. Stay tuned for a more detailed blog post on this topic.
2. cigarettes should be illegal because they are very bad for you and they can give you different type of cancer
4. it is cheating when ahletes use steroids. they shoul get suspended for th rest of the season
i would make cigarets illegal because they do a lot of dammage to your body especialy your lungs smoking is one of the leading causes of lung cancer and disese. and caancer is a very serious illness
1.) i think a way to show your friend or family member that they are at risk of addiction it to show them things that have happened to other people by using those drugs or kind of tell them what they will use by using those drugs.
5.) i think the best way to send a message to kids is by sharing a true story or showing the examples of the situation. so then they see and think wow this really can happen to people like me.
Knowing what i know now, i would make cigarretes illegal. Many people would probably protest this, and many wouldnt stop. But there is no harm in making it illegal if it harms you.
I say this because cigarrets will kill our society one day. They damage every part of your body, and less damage means less death.
The best way to get the word out to teens in my opinion would be through social networking. If they're about to send that text saying "Lets go get high", then maybe they'll think twice when they see the ad.
2.) I would make cigerattes illegal and i would ban the use of making cigaretts.
5.) The best way to get the message out to teens is all of them, social net works, tv ads, and web sites.
4.) I do consider it cheating when athletes use steroids to improve their performance because it is giving them an advantage over people other people who are playing. And i think the punishment should be they get kicked of the team they're on
6.) The message should be from other teens, I think, because teens will be more interested in another teen who did something and met conciquenses rather than an adult who did.
5.I think the best way to get messaged out to teens would be soical networks because most teens are online. Most teens change the show when commercials come on.
2. With what I know I would make cigarettes illegal. Even if a lot of people want to smoke I would make sure that cigarettes are not smoked. They are bad for your health and in the end do no good for you.
4. I do consider it cheating when athletes use steroids to improve their athletic ability. The consenqusences should be that they cant compete in any competition with that sport. The reason why I think that is because if they can't improve their ability on the own they can't succeed with steroids ethier.
1.) I would tell them you know what you are doing right now. Ypu are really messing up your bady to think and you may get addicted to that drug because you are so young and you are not used to that thing in your body. So just be aware of that and take care of your body. So please people that are reading this please dont ever start at a young age because you may be at risk of getting addicted.
5.) The best way to get messages out to teens is to tell as many people as possible and then they would tell their friends and it would keep going on and on from there. It is really cool to think about that if you tell someone a positive thing and they tell another it could get around so fast because it just keeps going abd going. Also using social network and web sites because most people go online for answers to their questions and some people think that all the information is correct.
3.) What I would do is that I would tell them as long as the injury or whatever is current and you are not over dosing and it is perscribed to you then it is okay to use it. If it is not all three of those things than I would say dont use it at all because you dont know what will happen to you if you use it.
5. In my opinion, the best way to get a message to teens is social networking. Many teens spend time on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
6. I think the message should be from a singer or actor or actress.
5) how the messages should be put out there is by, having commericals during tv shows that are most watched by teens, or by putting little messages on the internet so they might click on it.
6) Who the messages should be from, is famous people. The reason why I say that is because it might change thier mind about doing that stuff. Also it should be from previous users of the stuff to show them, how horrible it can be.
2.yes because over 400000 die each year
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5. socail networking because its fatser because people have IM
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