Friday, July 1, 2011

Vulnerability during adolescence period

Adolescent is the time which tries to cope with the challenges facing you with a positive attitude. Adolescent a feel as though nothing bad will happen to them. It is a characteristic of adolescents in every country in the world to think bad thinks cannot happen to them. “It won to happen to me,” they tell themselves. They some times feel too confident and too safe.
Are you like this? Do you feel can take risks and nothing bad will happen to you? For example, you might know about illicit drugs. But you think that as long as you don’t have harmful drug very often, you will be safe from drug addiction. Drug addiction creates much social concern including disease like STI’s and HIV/AIDS. Or you might know a lot about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. You might know that it can be transmitted through unprotected sex and needle sharing. You don’t think HIV infection could happen to you or the kind of people you know. On the other hand you may involve illegal activities to collect money to brought drugs or sex.
It is more important that Prevent substance abuse among vulnerable youths who are at highest risk of HIV. So it is necessary to develop a sense of responsibility in young people, and give them the skills to identify and deal positively with peer pressure. Those Adolescents are likely to have experimented with tobacco, alcohol and drugs. It seeks to prevent adolescent substance abuse, thus reducing the demand for drugs and to enhance self-esteem and their skills in risk-assessment, decision making and to counter peer pressure.
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