E-Health Magazine Partial 4 May 2014 | Page 5

THE IMPACT THAT ADDICTIONS HAVE IN OUR SOCIETY Drugs and alcohol are some addictions that affect the most in our families and mostly in our society. Every day, all types of addictions are growing rapidly more very time and if affects many people in the society, especially teenagers. They still don’t have the responsibility of having a car and they usually cause big accidents that affect our community because they cause accidents around the community and they can even kill innocent people. In conclusion, addictions can really affect our society in a really bad way and the behavior of our teenagers and kids too. People have to be aware of what they are doing and be mature by knowing the responsibility that they are carrying and what they are showing and teaching to the younger ones. Some consequences caused by addictions are that for being using drugs or abusing in drinking alcohol, people start loosing jobs and focusing in things that make no sense or that don’t help at all. Many teenagers have lost their lives because of alcohol addiction and that is one of the most common ones. Since many teens are not that mature yet to drink alcohol, they are not in their five senses and they start doing things that they are not aware of. 5