Human Development — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question
CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 11 HumanitiesPsychologyHuman Development2 Marks
Question
How substance abuse affect our development?
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Answer
Adolescent, years are especially vulnerable to smoking, alcohol and drug abuse:
Some adolescents take recourse to smoking and drugs as a way of coping with stress.
This can interfere with the development of coping skills and responsible-decision making.
It has been found that adolescents who are more vulnerable to drugs, alcohol and nicotine use are impulsive, aggressive, anxious, depressive, and unpredictable, have low self-esteem and low expectation for achievement.
Drug use if continued long enough can lead to physiological dependency i.e. addiction to drug, alcohol or nicotine may seriously jeopardize the rest of the adolescents lives.
The reasons would be peer pressure and the adolescents need to be accepted by the group, or desire to act more like adults, or feel a need to escape the pressure of school work or social activities.
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