Why Is Teenage Drug Addiction Spiraling Out of Control?

Have you ever stopped to think about why teenage drug addiction in recent years has started spiraling out of control? Could it be that the youth are becoming more unruly and disrespectful? Could it be that drugs have become more freely available? Or could it be that the moral fiber of our society is gradually being eroded without us even realizing it?

I personally think that there are a million different excuses which we can use in order to explain the increase in teenage drug addiction, but that is all they will be, excuses! We are very often to afraid to open our eyes and see that this ever increasing epidemic is due to our unwillingness to take responsibility.

How often are we taking our children at a young age to therapists and doctors and having them put on scheduled medication because we are 'too busy' to actually look for the cause of the depression or frustration which they are feeling? Are we allowing our fast paced lives make us sacrifice the sanity, security and health of our children?

Now you might be asking, "but what does this have to do with teenage drug addiction?" and my answer to you is quite simple, but in essence not what most of you want to hear. Any person, child, adult or other who turns to drugs does so because somewhere in their basic human needs there is something lacking.

No level minded, well balanced person would intentionally begin to poison themselves unless they need to fill one of their basic human needs, whether that is the need for acceptance, love, stability, a sense of belonging or even more on a spiritual side. The fact of the matter is that everybody knows the dangers of drugs so what is making our children turn to teenage drug addiction?

I personally believe it is due to the fact that addiction is becoming more and more acceptable in modern day society as it is all to common to see teenagers being put onto antidepressants and calmatives in order to account for a basic human need of theirs which is not being met and mommy and daddy just don't have time to deal with it and it is easier to treat the symptom rather than the cause, it does not cut into their schedule.

I also believe that this lays the foundation and makes it so much easier for our children to fall prey to teenage drug addiction as most of these medications are in essence addictive.

So before you simply get your child put onto scheduled medication for depression, anger, hyperactivity or what ever other reason, why not first take the time to firstly check the side effects of the medication and secondly have a look at what the underlying cause for your child's condition might be before possibly lining them up to be another statistic of teenage drug addiction.