CLAIM: America lacks accessible resources to help young Americans who struggle with addiction issues.
EVIDENCE: In the documentary Addiction the directors stated, “1/4th of grade 8 students have admitted to trying marijuana.” This statistic is particularly shocking, considering the human brain is not even fully developed until people reach their early twenties (pbs.org). LOGOS If students are using marijuana as early as 8th grade, they are causing irreparable damage to their brains and potentially stunting their ability to learn and/or function in the future. Similarly, the young man who was interviewed in Addiction stated that it was extremely easy for him to attain cocaine. This author, as a high school teacher, was shocked by the fact that a drug such as cocaine was so easily accessible to a high school student. Students have consistently come to this author’s class stoned on and reeking of marijuana with increasing frequency as this author’s career has progressed. PATHOS The idea that cocaine is also readily available to the student body and regularly used by some students is a fact that must be addressed not only by the school, but also by society as a whole. ETHOS The young woman who discussed her rehabilitation offered the only glimmer of hope in the entire documentary; however, not everyone has equal access to rehabilitation. In fact, “in 2002, the average cost of a 30 day rehab treatment program was around $1400” (discoveryhealth.com). LOGOS Although the one flaw of the documentary was that the directors did not discuss this discrepancy, it is important to note the glaring lack of equal access to rehab created by such expense. ETHOS
Lucy Protze Mrs. Mackenzie English 11 November 4, 2010 Addiction: A Critical Review America makes getting addicted to drugs or alcohol much easier by letting drugs and alcohol be very accessible. In the documentary Addiction, when the directors interview Emily Johnson and Zach Johnson they both said getting drugs and alcohol was extremely easy for them as young teens. The Criminal Justice Department in America makes getting drugs and alcohol very easy for teens by not investigating into where these teens are getting the substances. The directors of the documentary also stated, “Approximately 15% of children under the age of 18 have admitted to experimenting with illegal drugs.” This statistic is very unacceptable and astonishing because the brain of a child is still developing, the use of drugs during childhood can leave more severe trauma and permanent brain damage. Children who use drugs are also more prone to overdose because of their size. (pheonixhouse.org). This author as, a teenager, has seen other teens get drugs easily. Zach Johnson who was interviewed in the documentary said it was very easy for him to obtain cocaine. This author has witnessed teens get cocaine and knows how easy it is. Using drugs affects many areas of America’s society. According to America’s Drug Abuse Profile, “about 6 percent of the household population aged twelve and older, use illegal drugs on a current basis,” and teens who use illegal drugs are associated with “premature sexual activity (with attendant risks of unwanted pregnancy and exposure to sexually-transmitted diseases like HIV/AIDS), delinquency, and involvement in the criminal justice system which affect our economy badly. Getting drugs is an everyday thing for some people and that is not how it should be, the law enforcement and the community should step up and help reduce drug use in America.
J.H. Mrs. Mackenzie English 11 November 7, 2010 Addiction: A Critical Review *Some Names Have Been Changed Due To Confidentiality* Drugs can make you lose everything including your family, you job, and even yourself. Zach Johnson, one of the interviewees stated that he had lost his job, all of his good friends and had gained negative objects in his life that he regretted. Even though it just started out as a party drug for him, he began to feel like everything he had once had was disappearing. A very close friend to me, Tanner, got addicted to pot my freshman year, which was his junior year. He had been an exellent student up until that point.But then his stepsister decided to give him drugs, it didn't affect him very much at first, but his motivation quickly decended. He failed two of his classes which prevented him from graduating. He's trying to make up those credits by January 5th or he'll chance getting discharged from the Marines. He lost his education, which has led to him losing alot of other oppurtunities. Another old friend of mine, Aaron, has just recently started doing drugs. He has lost near everythign already. His grades are plummeting just as Tanner's did, but on top of that he is losing his family, most of his friends, his respect, and worst of all, his self. He has no sense of direction and is leading down a horrid path. His dreams of the School of Mines are decreasing more rapidly as his addiction picks up. All three of these people thought drugs would help them sustain a good life, what they really got was a life of loss.
More teens than ever are getting addicted to drugs and alcohol. People in America are starting to become more and more addicted to drugs and need to get help for it. Researchers have found that about 1 out of every 8 Americans have an addiction that is publicly known (brainz.org). Those are just the known cases; there could be even more cases that are not publicly known. This is a very high amount of people suffering for addiction. Also around 15% of teens under the age of 18 have admitted to using illegal substances (brainz.org). This is America’s youth getting addicted to illegal substances. These teens should be focusing on making a future for themselves but instead they are busy getting messed up on drugs. According to the director of Addiction “Marijuana is smoked regularly by about a quarter of 8th graders.” People are beginning to experiment with drug at younger and younger ages. These teens in 8th grade still have developing brains, and can damage their brains by doing drugs. Drugs can really mess up peoples lives more than they think that it can.
K.H.A. Ms. Mack English 11 4 November 2010 Addiction: a critical review In the documentary Addiction the author states “1/4 of 8th grade students have smokes marijuana” and “almost 15 percent of teens have experimented with illegal drugs.” In society people make drugs such a big deal, but the cops don’t do anything about this. The police don’t investigate about how or where teens this young are getting their supply. Now in the U.S. we are making it legal to have marijuana if you have a license but people are cheating the system to get their fix. Emily and Zach both said that they stole from people just to get their drug. If America now days are wondering what is going on with our youth today and why we are doing drugs it is because we have it easy now; everything is so easy to get. Just about everyone has about one or two dealers in their phones. If something is going to change between the law and the teens. We have to make it legal. Most of the time the only reason why teens are doing all of this is mostly because of the thrill instead of actually being hooked. If we made it where anyone could get it then there is a very high chance that people won’t get addicted. If we wanted to make it so the crime rate goes down and the percentage of teens and young adults that are becoming sober.So if the government started to help and look out for its people.
J.C. Mrs. MacKenzie English 11 4 November 2010 Addiction: A Critical Review People younger and younger are beginning to deal with addiction issues. In the documentary the Addiction directors stated, “1/4th of grade 8 students have admitted to trying marijuana.” This statistic is shocking considering these students are only in grade 8. The human brain is not even fully developed until the age of 25 (pbs.org). In the documentary a girl was in high school and had already struggled with substance abuse and went through rehab. This girl was in my grade and had already gone through all of that which is astonishing to me. Many people in my family have also gone through addiction under with age of 20. Two of my cousins struggled with addiction to meth. Both of them were completely neglecting their families and friends due to this addiction. That was about six years ago and now children younger than they were at the time are struggling with this. In the documentary the Addiction directors stated, “15 percent of children under the age of 18 have admitted to experimenting to illegal drugs.” This is frightening because 18 is still so young and these children are under that age. Actually, just yesterday my friend was telling me about how her boyfriend’s sister is in eighth grade and she will always smoke and drink. This young girl is only thirteen years old. When I was thirteen I never even imagined experimenting with illegal things. Now, it’s like its common for middle school children to do be a addicted to something from tobacco to cocaine. It’s just astonishing to know that these sort of things are happening.
Mrs.Mackenzie English 11 7 November 2010 Addiction: A Critical Review Teenagers and young adults are more exposed to pressures of drug and alcohol abuse. The first fact in the documentary, Addiction, it states that ¼ of grade 8 students admit to smoking marijuana. In the documentary, all of the interviews that were held were with people under the age of 30. Emily Johnson is the same age as me and most of my friends. Zach Johnson said that he was influenced to try drugs because he wanted to feel it firsthand. He said that he had a group of close friends who all did drugs, and he wanted to feel it for himself. Emily had problems in her family life and turned to substance and alcohol for help. Among the 14 million adults aged 21 or older who were classified as having past year alcohol dependence or abuse, more than 13 million (95%) had started drinking alcohol before age 21.( www.oas.samhsa.gov) . Also in the documentary, it states that approximately 15% of children under the age of 18 have admitted to experimenting with illegal drugs. This evidence shows that it is highly likely for teenagers and young adults to become more susceptible to the pressures to try drugs and alcohol.
M.M Ms. Mackenzie English 11 November 5, 2010 A Critical Review Teenagers have an easier time getting drugs than getting help to break their addiction. In the documentary, Addiction, both former addicts said that they had little to no problems getting illegal substances from friends or friends of friends. However the documentary didn’t mention any place teens could go to get face to face help with addiction. This is why teens are continuing to use different illegal substances such as Vicodin and OxyContin, the use of which has increased among 10th graders in the last five years (http://drugabuse.gov). As a high school student the author of this review has seen firsthand how easy drugs can be to get from other students, however she doesn’t see nearly as many ways to get help if you’re already addicted. Fear of being arrested or punished keeps addicts from revealing their problem to any kind of adult that could help. Around 2.7 million people in the US are addicted to one drug or another (www.druglibrary.org) and more care needs to be taken in encouraging recovering addicts to come forward to get the help they need to succeed. Then that number will have a chance to decrease.
Addiction: A Critical Review Addiction with America’s youth is increasing each year. In the documentary Addiction it stated that, “Approximately 15 percent of children under the age of 18 have admitted to experimenting with illegal drugs.” More than 60 percent of teens said that drugs were sold, used, or kept at their school.(teendrugabuse.us) With these statistics no wonder so many young kids in America are becoming addicted. Another very surprising statement made in the addiction documentary was Emily Johnson has already been in rehab and she is only a teenager. Most people don’t get the help they need because either they don’t think they have a problem or they avoid it. The typical success rate of most drug rehabilitation centers is around 2%-20%, however some rehab facilities have success rates as high as 75%. (Drugrehabs.org).Another shocking fact stated in the Addiction documentary was the use of cocaine in the schools. Zack Johnson said it was very easy for him to obtain cocaine in high school, that’s when he started getting addicted. An average of ten percent of Americans over the age of 12 has tried cocaine at least once. Two percent have tried cocaine and approximately one percent of Americans use cocaine on a regular basis. (rehabinfo.net). It is a scary fact to think that such a hard drug can so easily be obtained in high school.
T.H English 11 Mrs. McKenzie 4 November 2010 Addition Claim: Yong Americans struggle with their addition and there aren’t enough resources to help them out with their condition. Evidence: In the first interview Emily Johnson was talking about how easy it was to get what she wanted and how that made it so easy to get addicted because it was around you all the time. Just like in this fact that 15% of children under 18 have experimented with illegal drugs. That really blows mind because at such a young age if you develop such a habit it’s going to be hard to break those habits that you build at such a young age. She also said that she started because of her friends where doing it so that peer pressure comes into play with this in a way that if your friends are doing it then it should be okay if you do it. LOGOS You also have a better chance at becoming addicted if you start at a young age, then starting at an older age. Emily went to rehab and said that she is clean now but there still is that feeling that you can go back but she doesn’t want to. PATHOS Addition is a big thing in America and it seems that no one is doing anything to help the cause. There aren’t as many treatments centers but here are some that I found (teen-drug-abuse.org): -Dextoication -Residential Rehabilitation -Intense Outpatient Program -Aftercare/Conforming Care In the second interview Zach Johnson was saying that he was addicted to cocaine. He also said that it was easy for him to get if because his friend would get it for him and he could live without it. LOGOS By the age of 13, teens have already done powerful drugs such as cocaine. That’s an eye opener because that’s students in middle school doing a crazy drug such as cocaine. PATHOS When people become addicted they suffer from memory loss, fail in school, lose friends, and health problems. He also said when he was addicted that he lost a lot of friends along the way and it affected his family life. All in all this was a great digital documentary and I liked learning about something I wasn’t so in tune with
People with addictive personalities need to seek help and learn to control their addictive behaviors. Some people have absolutely no control over what they take and do. Many times when people are addicted to something, they tend to act odder because they are trying to seek help. The grandmother of this author was once addicted to pills. After going to the hospital to seek help from her addiction, she got addicted to alcohol weeks later. To prove that people tend to act more strange when addicted to something, she had hid all of the alcohol underneath the couch instead of throwing them away. This, therefore, proves that when people are addicted to something they need help and they are aware of it. Some people are just born with addictive personalities and have to be more cautious about what they are taking into their bodies. People with addictive personalities are sometimes unaware of they are doing to themselves and sometimes think that what they are doing to themselves is actually helping them. As the interviewee stated “I had lost everything….” This should remind us about what addiction can do to us. People can be addicted to anything: Alcohol, drugs, sex, eating, and even as strange as swallowing metal. People need to help those with addictive personalities because it’s a struggle for them to control themselves.
M.C. Mrs. MacKenzie English 11 November 12, 2010 A Critical Review: Addiction CLAIM: It’s easy to access drugs especially for teenagers. EVIDENCE: Emily Johnson states “It is easy to get marijuana even easier then getting alcohol.” At the beginning of the documentary Addiction the opening quote states, “One quarter of grade eight students admit to smoking marijuana regularly.” PATHOS. “Of the 14.6 million marijuana users in 2002, approximately 4.8 million used it on 20 or more days in any given month (Kids and Marijuana).” LOGOS. If during the time span of a month teens are using marijuana twenty out of thirty days that means almost everyday if not everyday they have access to these drugs. “Also the percentage of teens who say that they know a student at their school who sells drugs almost triples, from eight percent to 22 percent (Psych Central), (teendrugabuse.us).” In almost every case when a child is providing these drugs to other peers the chances of them using the drug is very likely. When teenagers get to high school more students begin to attend parties where alcohol and drugs are the main source of entertainment. Because there are parties devoted to substance abuse it becomes easier to become a part of the group, which frequently lives this life style. “From age 12 to age 13, the proportion of teens who say they could buy marijuana if they wanted to more than triples, from 14 to 50 percent” (teendrugabuse.us). Since the ages are lowering where kids can obtain drugs school districts should look into informing students on the effects of drugs to your body so they are better educated into making a responsible decision.
In this documentary that deals with addiction, one of the main topics is the use of alcohol and marijuana. One statistic in the documentary was that ¼ of 8th graders admitted to smoking marijuana regularly. The amount of kids who experiment with illegal drugs is increasing, and the kids are getting younger and younger. One of the reason’s that there is such a problem with alcohol in America is because the drinking age is so high. Since its illegal to drink when you’re a teen, most kids think its “cool” to drink. In European countries where the drinking age is lowered, the responsible use of alcohol is presented earlier on, so there is a decreased chance that kids will drink it in excess. One other startling fact was learning how easy it is for kid’s to obtain cocaine through someone that attends school with them.
Joe Roberts Ms.Gurian Period 1 In this documentry, that deals with the addiction, they state that addiction is prevelant in high school and high school life. One of the main things they talk about is the use of marijuana in high school children. They state that the amount of illgeal drug use is increasing rapidly. I believe they did a good job with stating there claim and using the reasoning logos to state their claim. They use logical statistics. They also had a interveiwe who talked about his use of cocaine and how it started out as a party drug and escalated to his life disapearing before his eyes. This showed how drugs can affect your life in a negative way.
Addiction is a huge problem in society today. At both my new school and my old private school I have heard students talking about drugs and times that they have done them, no matter where you go there are always going to be people that are going to bring this problem to your school, one reason they do it is because they think its cool, or it just makes them feel good. Some of these people that do drugs do it just to have a good time, but some use them because they are depressed or if they are having problems in their life at home, its not solving anything, all it is doing is “taking you out of reality” for a short time, and after that, all that it has done is wasted your money and “helped” you to get through a few hours of reality without actually having to deal with it. The most common reason that teens do drugs is because they for one think its cool and it makes them feel good, and for two they do it before class so they don’t have to deal with their teachers or the work. In the video there was a ridiculous percentage of the amount of kids that had tried marijuana in 8th grade, and its not doing anything good for them except wasting there lunch money or their parents money and their time.
S.M.
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English 11
4 November 2010
Addiction: A Critical Review
CLAIM:
America lacks accessible resources to help young Americans who struggle with addiction issues.
EVIDENCE:
In the documentary Addiction the directors stated, “1/4th of grade 8 students have admitted to trying marijuana.” This statistic is particularly shocking, considering the human brain is not even fully developed until people reach their early twenties (pbs.org). LOGOS If students are using marijuana as early as 8th grade, they are causing irreparable damage to their brains and potentially stunting their ability to learn and/or function in the future.
Similarly, the young man who was interviewed in Addiction stated that it was extremely easy for him to attain cocaine. This author, as a high school teacher, was shocked by the fact that a drug such as cocaine was so easily accessible to a high school student. Students have consistently come to this author’s class stoned on and reeking of marijuana with increasing frequency as this author’s career has progressed. PATHOS The idea that cocaine is also readily available to the student body and regularly used by some students is a fact that must be addressed not only by the school, but also by society as a whole. ETHOS
The young woman who discussed her rehabilitation offered the only glimmer of hope in the entire documentary; however, not everyone has equal access to rehabilitation. In fact, “in 2002, the average cost of a 30 day rehab treatment program was around $1400” (discoveryhealth.com). LOGOS Although the one flaw of the documentary was that the directors did not discuss this discrepancy, it is important to note the glaring lack of equal access to rehab created by such expense. ETHOS
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English 11
November 4, 2010
Addiction: A Critical Review
America makes getting addicted to drugs or alcohol much easier by letting drugs and alcohol be very accessible. In the documentary Addiction, when the directors interview Emily Johnson and Zach Johnson they both said getting drugs and alcohol was extremely easy for them as young teens. The Criminal Justice Department in America makes getting drugs and alcohol very easy for teens by not investigating into where these teens are getting the substances. The directors of the documentary also stated, “Approximately 15% of children under the age of 18 have admitted to experimenting with illegal drugs.” This statistic is very unacceptable and astonishing because the brain of a child is still developing, the use of drugs during childhood can leave more severe trauma and permanent brain damage. Children who use drugs are also more prone to overdose because of their size. (pheonixhouse.org).
This author as, a teenager, has seen other teens get drugs easily. Zach Johnson who was interviewed in the documentary said it was very easy for him to obtain cocaine. This author has witnessed teens get cocaine and knows how easy it is. Using drugs affects many areas of America’s society. According to America’s Drug Abuse Profile, “about 6 percent of the household population aged twelve and older, use illegal drugs on a current basis,” and teens who use illegal drugs are associated with “premature sexual activity (with attendant risks of unwanted pregnancy and exposure to sexually-transmitted diseases like HIV/AIDS), delinquency, and involvement in the criminal justice system which affect our economy badly. Getting drugs is an everyday thing for some people and that is not how it should be, the law enforcement and the community should step up and help reduce drug use in America.
J.H.
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English 11
November 7, 2010
Addiction: A Critical Review
*Some Names Have Been Changed Due To Confidentiality*
Drugs can make you lose everything including your family, you job, and even yourself. Zach Johnson, one of the interviewees stated that he had lost his job, all of his good friends and had gained negative objects in his life that he regretted. Even though it just started out as a party drug for him, he began to feel like everything he had once had was disappearing. A very close friend to me, Tanner, got addicted to pot my freshman year, which was his junior year. He had been an exellent student up until that point.But then his stepsister decided to give him drugs, it didn't affect him very much at first, but his motivation quickly decended. He failed two of his classes which prevented him from graduating. He's trying to make up those credits by January 5th or he'll chance getting discharged from the Marines. He lost his education, which has led to him losing alot of other oppurtunities. Another old friend of mine, Aaron, has just recently started doing drugs. He has lost near everythign already. His grades are plummeting just as Tanner's did, but on top of that he is losing his family, most of his friends, his respect, and worst of all, his self. He has no sense of direction and is leading down a horrid path. His dreams of the School of Mines are decreasing more rapidly as his addiction picks up. All three of these people thought drugs would help them sustain a good life, what they really got was a life of loss.
A.D.
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English 11
4 October 2010
Addiction: A Critical Review
More teens than ever are getting addicted to drugs and alcohol. People in America are starting to become more and more addicted to drugs and need to get help for it. Researchers have found that about 1 out of every 8 Americans have an addiction that is publicly known (brainz.org). Those are just the known cases; there could be even more cases that are not publicly known. This is a very high amount of people suffering for addiction. Also around 15% of teens under the age of 18 have admitted to using illegal substances (brainz.org). This is America’s youth getting addicted to illegal substances. These teens should be focusing on making a future for themselves but instead they are busy getting messed up on drugs. According to the director of Addiction “Marijuana is smoked regularly by about a quarter of 8th graders.” People are beginning to experiment with drug at younger and younger ages. These teens in 8th grade still have developing brains, and can damage their brains by doing drugs. Drugs can really mess up peoples lives more than they think that it can.
K.H.A.
ReplyDeleteMs. Mack
English 11
4 November 2010
Addiction: a critical review
In the documentary Addiction the author states “1/4 of 8th grade students have smokes marijuana” and “almost 15 percent of teens have experimented with illegal drugs.” In society people make drugs such a big deal, but the cops don’t do anything about this. The police don’t investigate about how or where teens this young are getting their supply. Now in the U.S. we are making it legal to have marijuana if you have a license but people are cheating the system to get their fix. Emily and Zach both said that they stole from people just to get their drug. If America now days are wondering what is going on with our youth today and why we are doing drugs it is because we have it easy now; everything is so easy to get. Just about everyone has about one or two dealers in their phones. If something is going to change between the law and the teens. We have to make it legal. Most of the time the only reason why teens are doing all of this is mostly because of the thrill instead of actually being hooked. If we made it where anyone could get it then there is a very high chance that people won’t get addicted. If we wanted to make it so the crime rate goes down and the percentage of teens and young adults that are becoming sober.So if the government started to help and look out for its people.
J.C.
ReplyDeleteMrs. MacKenzie
English 11
4 November 2010
Addiction: A Critical Review
People younger and younger are beginning to deal with addiction issues.
In the documentary the Addiction directors stated, “1/4th of grade 8 students have admitted to trying marijuana.” This statistic is shocking considering these students are only in grade 8. The human brain is not even fully developed until the age of 25 (pbs.org).
In the documentary a girl was in high school and had already struggled with substance abuse and went through rehab. This girl was in my grade and had already gone through all of that which is astonishing to me. Many people in my family have also gone through addiction under with age of 20. Two of my cousins struggled with addiction to meth. Both of them were completely neglecting their families and friends due to this addiction. That was about six years ago and now children younger than they were at the time are struggling with this.
In the documentary the Addiction directors stated, “15 percent of children under the age of 18 have admitted to experimenting to illegal drugs.” This is frightening because 18 is still so young and these children are under that age. Actually, just yesterday my friend was telling me about how her boyfriend’s sister is in eighth grade and she will always smoke and drink. This young girl is only thirteen years old. When I was thirteen I never even imagined experimenting with illegal things. Now, it’s like its common for middle school children to do be a addicted to something from tobacco to cocaine. It’s just astonishing to know that these sort of things are happening.
Mrs.Mackenzie
ReplyDeleteEnglish 11
7 November 2010
Addiction: A Critical Review
Teenagers and young adults are more exposed to pressures of drug and alcohol abuse. The first fact in the documentary, Addiction, it states that ¼ of grade 8 students admit to smoking marijuana. In the documentary, all of the interviews that were held were with people under the age of 30. Emily Johnson is the same age as me and most of my friends. Zach Johnson said that he was influenced to try drugs because he wanted to feel it firsthand. He said that he had a group of close friends who all did drugs, and he wanted to feel it for himself. Emily had problems in her family life and turned to substance and alcohol for help. Among the 14 million adults aged 21 or older who were classified as having past year alcohol dependence or abuse, more than 13 million (95%) had started drinking alcohol before age 21.( www.oas.samhsa.gov) . Also in the documentary, it states that approximately 15% of children under the age of 18 have admitted to experimenting with illegal drugs. This evidence shows that it is highly likely for teenagers and young adults to become more susceptible to the pressures to try drugs and alcohol.
M.M
ReplyDeleteMs. Mackenzie
English 11
November 5, 2010
A Critical Review
Teenagers have an easier time getting drugs than getting help to break their addiction. In the documentary, Addiction, both former addicts said that they had little to no problems getting illegal substances from friends or friends of friends. However the documentary didn’t mention any place teens could go to get face to face help with addiction. This is why teens are continuing to use different illegal substances such as Vicodin and OxyContin, the use of which has increased among 10th graders in the last five years (http://drugabuse.gov). As a high school student the author of this review has seen firsthand how easy drugs can be to get from other students, however she doesn’t see nearly as many ways to get help if you’re already addicted. Fear of being arrested or punished keeps addicts from revealing their problem to any kind of adult that could help. Around 2.7 million people in the US are addicted to one drug or another (www.druglibrary.org) and more care needs to be taken in encouraging recovering addicts to come forward to get the help they need to succeed. Then that number will have a chance to decrease.
JT
ReplyDeleteMs. MacKenzie
English 11
11 November 2010
Addiction: A Critical Review
Addiction with America’s youth is increasing each year. In the documentary Addiction it stated that, “Approximately 15 percent of children under the age of 18 have admitted to experimenting with illegal drugs.” More than 60 percent of teens said that drugs were sold, used, or kept at their school.(teendrugabuse.us) With these statistics no wonder so many young kids in America are becoming addicted. Another very surprising statement made in the addiction documentary was Emily Johnson has already been in rehab and she is only a teenager. Most people don’t get the help they need because either they don’t think they have a problem or they avoid it. The typical success rate of most drug rehabilitation centers is around 2%-20%, however some rehab facilities have success rates as high as 75%. (Drugrehabs.org).Another shocking fact stated in the Addiction documentary was the use of cocaine in the schools. Zack Johnson said it was very easy for him to obtain cocaine in high school, that’s when he started getting addicted. An average of ten percent of Americans over the age of 12 has tried cocaine at least once. Two percent have tried cocaine and approximately one percent of Americans use cocaine on a regular basis. (rehabinfo.net). It is a scary fact to think that such a hard drug can so easily be obtained in high school.
T.H
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Mrs. McKenzie
4 November 2010
Addition
Claim: Yong Americans struggle with their addition and there aren’t enough resources to help them out with their condition.
Evidence: In the first interview Emily Johnson was talking about how easy it was to get what she wanted and how that made it so easy to get addicted because it was around you all the time. Just like in this fact that 15% of children under 18 have experimented with illegal drugs. That really blows mind because at such a young age if you develop such a habit it’s going to be hard to break those habits that you build at such a young age. She also said that she started because of her friends where doing it so that peer pressure comes into play with this in a way that if your friends are doing it then it should be okay if you do it. LOGOS You also have a better chance at becoming addicted if you start at a young age, then starting at an older age. Emily went to rehab and said that she is clean now but there still is that feeling that you can go back but she doesn’t want to. PATHOS Addition is a big thing in America and it seems that no one is doing anything to help the cause. There aren’t as many treatments centers but here are some that I found (teen-drug-abuse.org):
-Dextoication
-Residential Rehabilitation
-Intense Outpatient Program
-Aftercare/Conforming Care
In the second interview Zach Johnson was saying that he was addicted to cocaine. He also said that it was easy for him to get if because his friend would get it for him and he could live without it. LOGOS By the age of 13, teens have already done powerful drugs such as cocaine. That’s an eye opener because that’s students in middle school doing a crazy drug such as cocaine. PATHOS When people become addicted they suffer from memory loss, fail in school, lose friends, and health problems. He also said when he was addicted that he lost a lot of friends along the way and it affected his family life. All in all this was a great digital documentary and I liked learning about something I wasn’t so in tune with
A.S.K.
ReplyDeleteMs. Mackenzie
English 11
November 14, 2010
Addiction Critical Review
People with addictive personalities need to seek help and learn to control their addictive behaviors. Some people have absolutely no control over what they take and do. Many times when people are addicted to something, they tend to act odder because they are trying to seek help. The grandmother of this author was once addicted to pills. After going to the hospital to seek help from her addiction, she got addicted to alcohol weeks later. To prove that people tend to act more strange when addicted to something, she had hid all of the alcohol underneath the couch instead of throwing them away. This, therefore, proves that when people are addicted to something they need help and they are aware of it. Some people are just born with addictive personalities and have to be more cautious about what they are taking into their bodies. People with addictive personalities are sometimes unaware of they are doing to themselves and sometimes think that what they are doing to themselves is actually helping them. As the interviewee stated “I had lost everything….” This should remind us about what addiction can do to us. People can be addicted to anything: Alcohol, drugs, sex, eating, and even as strange as swallowing metal. People need to help those with addictive personalities because it’s a struggle for them to control themselves.
M.C.
ReplyDeleteMrs. MacKenzie
English 11
November 12, 2010
A Critical Review: Addiction
CLAIM:
It’s easy to access drugs especially for teenagers.
EVIDENCE:
Emily Johnson states “It is easy to get marijuana even easier then getting alcohol.” At the beginning of the documentary Addiction the opening quote states, “One quarter of grade eight students admit to smoking marijuana regularly.” PATHOS. “Of the 14.6 million marijuana users in 2002, approximately 4.8 million used it on 20 or more days in any given month (Kids and Marijuana).” LOGOS. If during the time span of a month teens are using marijuana twenty out of thirty days that means almost everyday if not everyday they have access to these drugs. “Also the percentage of teens who say that they know a student at their school who sells drugs almost triples, from eight percent to 22 percent (Psych Central), (teendrugabuse.us).” In almost every case when a child is providing these drugs to other peers the chances of them using the drug is very likely. When teenagers get to high school more students begin to attend parties where alcohol and drugs are the main source of entertainment. Because there are parties devoted to substance abuse it becomes easier to become a part of the group, which frequently lives this life style. “From age 12 to age 13, the proportion of teens who say they could buy marijuana if they wanted to more than triples, from 14 to 50 percent” (teendrugabuse.us). Since the ages are lowering where kids can obtain drugs school districts should look into informing students on the effects of drugs to your body so they are better educated into making a responsible decision.
K.Y.
ReplyDeleteMrs. Mackenzie
November 18, 2010
In this documentary that deals with addiction, one of the main topics is the use of alcohol and marijuana. One statistic in the documentary was that ¼ of 8th graders admitted to smoking marijuana regularly. The amount of kids who experiment with illegal drugs is increasing, and the kids are getting younger and younger. One of the reason’s that there is such a problem with alcohol in America is because the drinking age is so high. Since its illegal to drink when you’re a teen, most kids think its “cool” to drink. In European countries where the drinking age is lowered, the responsible use of alcohol is presented earlier on, so there is a decreased chance that kids will drink it in excess. One other startling fact was learning how easy it is for kid’s to obtain cocaine through someone that attends school with them.
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ReplyDeleteJoe Roberts
ReplyDeleteMs.Gurian
Period 1
In this documentry, that deals with the addiction, they state that addiction is prevelant in high school and high school life. One of the main things they talk about is the use of marijuana in high school children. They state that the amount of illgeal drug use is increasing rapidly. I believe they did a good job with stating there claim and using the reasoning logos to state their claim. They use logical statistics. They also had a interveiwe who talked about his use of cocaine and how it started out as a party drug and escalated to his life disapearing before his eyes. This showed how drugs can affect your life in a negative way.
K.K.
ReplyDeleteMs. Mack
English 11
Addiction: A Critical Review
Addiction is a huge problem in society today. At both my new school and my old private school I have heard students talking about drugs and times that they have done them, no matter where you go there are always going to be people that are going to bring this problem to your school, one reason they do it is because they think its cool, or it just makes them feel good. Some of these people that do drugs do it just to have a good time, but some use them because they are depressed or if they are having problems in their life at home, its not solving anything, all it is doing is “taking you out of reality” for a short time, and after that, all that it has done is wasted your money and “helped” you to get through a few hours of reality without actually having to deal with it. The most common reason that teens do drugs is because they for one think its cool and it makes them feel good, and for two they do it before class so they don’t have to deal with their teachers or the work. In the video there was a ridiculous percentage of the amount of kids that had tried marijuana in 8th grade, and its not doing anything good for them except wasting there lunch money or their parents money and their time.