HOW VALID ARE THE REASONS FOR DRUG TAKING?

HOW VALID ARE THE REASONS FOR DRUG TAKING?drug medicines, 

Youngsters today defend their use of drugs on the grounds of alcohol. Their thrust to anxious parents is:  answer to this as any has been made by Dr. of the National Institute of Mental Health.  Points out, it is pale. In the first place, the use of alcohol, persons above 21 is not against the law. Secondly, alcohol as a crutch by some people does nothing to other chemical means of 'copping out. 

Drinking and alcoholism are currently subjects of in research. Thirdly, the acceptability of moderate social drinking assumes that adults are mature enough to make mature decisions as to their behavior. And, finally, there is the irrefutable fact that the fresh young years of personality growth and development are dangerously inappropriate for any chemical means of confounding reality. "As authorities well recognize, neither laws nor awareness of the medical facts can themselves secure drug abuse prevention. 

Nor can we stop people from using alcohol or cigarettes as support or as a bandage for their psychic wounds. Ours is a drug-oriented culture. From aspirin to sleeping pills, from tranquilizers to the 'pill,' Americans of all ages are ingesting drugs in greater variety and number than ever before. "It is not so much the phenomenon of use, however, but the misuse and abuse of drugs that bears close investigation. 

Why do people choose to distort or to ward off reality through chemical means? Perhaps we deal with deep-rooted feelings of alienation.

 Alienation among the young has been characterized as 'rebellion without cause ... rejection without a program ... refusal of what is without a vision of what should be.' As scientists we are left to probe whatever reasons can be found for this sad anomaly.