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Introduction
This report is based on the prevailing issue of drug abuse among Sri Lankan teenagers and the spread through social media. This analyses the continuous increasing trend of drug spread and how social media influences to boost up the spread.
This issue is being discussed since it has become a burning problem in Sri Lanka and the dark shadow of this is now being falling on the younger generation of the country.
The purpose of this report is to thoroughly address the above mentioned issue and find/suggest, as well as implement solution which will be adaptable in the Sri Lankan context in order to gradually reduce and eliminate the drug menace from Sri Lanka.
This report is covering the issue on local aspect. Hence this is limited to the territory of Sri Lanka. However, the solutions suggested are taken through foreign research implementations. The information foe this report is collected by analyzing newspaper articles and online publications. (references are mentioned)
The report divided into five categories as follow,
- Introduction to the issue and the present situation.
- Causes behind drug addiction
- Methods of drug propagation
- Solutions which are already implemented in Sri Lanka
- Suggestions
Introduction to the issue and the present situation.
Sri Lanka is experiencing a major problem with drug abuse. When we investigate on this problem it revealed that because of social media the youth get addicted to drugs in a major way. The usage of drugs among youth has increased and it has become a severe problem in the society too. While investigating we found out around 250,000 youth has been addicted to drugs. Out of 50,000 addicted to heroin alone. Annually 2,500 go to rehabilitation centers because of drugs.
External factors affect youth towards the usage of drugs. Some children upload videos in social media. Some of them try to follow them as trials. For an example; some students believe and try to prove the memory power get increased when they use drugs. Youth (age 13-24) become sick, they are aggressive, they cant control themselves, they lose their memory, and they become unconscious, also leads to prolong kidney failures, heart strokes, and liver failures.
Current situation
10 years ago there was a less amount of youth who addicted to drugs. But when analyzing the recent past, the number has increased rapidly. These are some reasons behind;
- Sri Lanka has become an exchange point of drug dealers.
- Drug dealers try to earn more profit in their business and they get more quantities. They target youth to sell drugs and then to their business partners.
Causes behind drug addiction
For most people, the initial first decision to take abuse into drugs is voluntary. But as they are swept up into the process of addiction, the medium pathways in their mind change so they are less able to control their behaviour and resist their intense impulses.
Among Youngers, drug addiction might start with experimental use of a recreational drug in social situations, and, for some others, the drug use becomes more often. For others, particularly with opioids, drug addiction starts with exposure to prescribed medications, or receiving medications from a friend or relative who has been prescribed the medication.
1) Social media
The trending drug abusing path, is social media which is more popular within the Youngers. Social media make connections between whole worlds, various people, and various companies all together and, social media also become as addiction drugs eventually.
Basically there are few ways, this is happening through social media.
- Illegal companies advertise their products in social media to gather targeted people.
- Drug addicted users make others to addictive for find drugs.
- Drug dealers or someone who contacted with them, organizing parties, event from social media, where you could easily find drugs.
- Youngers always look for new things to experiment. When some friends might post photos of they using drugs, Youngers who see obviously, may want to try it.
2) Causes of environment
Environment also plays an important part in making an addiction, because environment influences behavior. The environmental factors which may influence to drug addiction
- Isolated and absence from good social connections.
- Stress and family history.
- History of abuse or neglect.
- Unemployment.
- No extracurricular activities.
- faced injustices from society.
3) Genetics
Drug addiction may be influenced by inherited traits.
4) Lack of self-esteem.
The Mental Health and Counselling Center of the University of Texas reported that law self-esteem can lead to lack of self-development and tendency to drugs or alcohol consumption. Law self-esteem caused for many number of Drug abusing conditions. Likewise, if well-confident awaked person could prevent his addictions when, he felt that addiction at the first place.
There are so many direct and indirect causes to drugs. Some people take pill for illnesses, but in order to reduction of drugs they used to have more. However, drugs are not good for additionally uses. We should keep eyes on our youth for a better future.
Propagation of drugs
Social media
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