Juvenile Addiction
... I thought it was the ‘cool’ thing to do and now I have addiction with cigarettes. ... Illicit drugs present’s concerns for juveniles because of the long-term risk of addiction, its association with other physical and mental disorders, and its relationships to delinquency and conduct disorder. ... There is a great variability among adolescents in their patterns of abuse, how they begin to abuse substances and whether or not they progress from experimental use to chronic use or addiction.(8) Addiction depends on psychosocial factors, psychobiology, and underlying mental illnesses. ... There has always been people trying to put a stop to addiction, but there will never be a cure unless it is banned.