Causes of teenagers' drug abuse

Nowadays, one can hardly open a newspaper without seeing on article on drug abuse among teenagers. Sadly as it is, this kind of social evil has driven more and more youngsters to nowhere but cruelty and crime. The first and foremost step towards any possible solution, I feel, is to point out the causes that lead to this problem. Some of them can be low-esteem, lack of parents' attention and influence from bad friends. To …

…the lure of novelty, the lure that few teens can resist. In a word, low-esteem, parental ignorance and peer pressure are the three fundamental causes of drug abuse among teenagers. It's high time to do something really effective about this problem and save the youth generation. Should we put a hand to help our misguided youngsters or just look away and let the whole society go down to ruins? That is for you to dicide.