Peer Pressure

For a person to admit that he or she has an addiction to substance such as drugs will take some kind of courage. Drug problem is not accepted in the public’s eyes. When people look at a person knowing that he or she is into drug abuse, there is this imaginary boundary rising between them that separates them to the point that that person is treated nothing more than a criminal. This causes that person to feel uncomfortable and worthless which pushes that person use more drugs.

Peer pressure is a big factor in drug usage. As we force an individual to act in a certain way, the way we want that person to do so, we alter that person’s own self perception in life in a manner that they will develop confusion of how they should really act. We as individuals should have our own concrete view of what we should be. That is our privilege as a human being. But sometimes the crowd we are in chooses what’s best for us and that’s where the problem starts. The moment a person can’t take that pressure, the feeling of depression because he or she can’t live up to the expectation of the people in the surrounding, that’s the moment that that person will find ways to escape that feeling in the form of substance abuse. Drugs have an effect cause’s people to take their minds of their problems and that’s a relief for stressed out individuals. But the effect is not continuous. It ends at some point in time. So they take drugs again and again to regain that stress less feeling.

Certain people thought that because they think better that some people, that they have better decision making skills or better intuition, that they can just tell people what to do or how to act. They don’t realize that instead of helping out, they are actually making things more complicated. As people with higher intellect, we should let others seek out what good for them, what their strengths and weaknesses are and just be there for them. We should stop the common mistake of thinking what’s good for them. In this way we can stop that possibility of them getting hooked on drugs and go through drug treatment.