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Adolescence Addiction

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Adolescence Addiction
According to Broderick, P. C., & Blewitt, P. (2015), some adolescence think they are an adult once they have reach puberty but their brain will not be fully developed until they reach the approximate age of 25. The brain of all individual contains neurotransmitters which send pleasure signals. At certain stages of a person’s growth these neurotransmitters produce an increased amount of dopamine, which depletes as the individual reaches the adulthood status (Broderick, P. C., & Blewitt, P. 2015). According to Brooks (2015), being an adolescent is one of the most challenging times in a child’s life because they go through hormone, mood and physical changes. The adolescences’ brain has not developed fully until they are in their late twenties. Hormones are being produced and often times the adolescent’s body may look like …show more content…

At the age of sixteen he was introduced to OxyContin. He became rebellious and he ended up costing his parents lots of money when was involved in an auto collision. He wrecked his mother’s car, no one was seriously injured, but his mother’s car was a total loss, he stole his parent’s credit card, took money from his friends, stole and he dropped out of school. He was also arrested. At the age of 22, he was introduced to cocaine where he has been trying to kill himself with many attempts. The last attempt, he tried he ended up in a coma, then later on dying (Conley 2011). According to Conley (2011) and the National Center on addiction and substance abuse, CASA, ( 2011), nine out of ten teens smoke, drink or use drugs before they reach the age eighteen. One out of four are addicted before the age eighteen. The CASA reports show that 75% of high school students use drugs and one in five are addicted. 46% of high school students are now using addictive substances and one out of three are addicted (CASA, 2011 and Conley,

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