A very good morning I bid to our esteemed Principal ,Mr Jack , honorable teachers and my fellow friends. As the head prefect of our school, I, Caroline Lee, would like to talk about the “Drug Abuse” which causes great concern among parents and teachers.
First and foremost, the primary cause of drug abuse is curiosity. Most of the teenagers feel drugs are a mystery and curious about the taste of drugs though it will result in addiction. Taking drugs are also caused by lacking of parental guidance and love. Most contemporary parents both busy in pursuing materialistic goals, spend little time to accompany their children. Thus, the children who lack of parents’ care will be easily influenced by their wayward friends and mass media such as movies and magazines. Moreover, insufficient religious education will contribute drug abuse especially for those ones who care not about God and also the punishment of God.
Consequently, taking drugs will create very undesirable effects on the addicts especially teenagers. For instance, decline in grades in school of the adolescents and decline of their mental and physical health since taking drugs or injecting drugs among the addicts may cause varied diseases like HIV which weakens their immune system and destroys their minds. Furthermore, the addicts who will not be employed, become a burden to the family and society as they need to waste a lot of money to buy their “favorable” drugs to “fulfill” their addiction.
To prevent this malaise from deteriorating, some useful measures must be taken by parents and school authorities. First of all, parental support and love is required to overcome this menace. Parents must pay full attention to the growth of their children and take good care of their children. Ergo, dynamic anti-drug campaigns ought to be conducted in schools, warming those naughty ones the pernicious effects of taking drugs. Besides, the government has to set the religious education as a subject in...