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Teen Drug Use In Our Society

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     Teens in our society are more at risk of drug use than ever before in our countries current climate with everything going on like Covid-19 or the anger built up from all the social injustice across the country. Teens are stressed about there future so they try new things like pot or vaping to destress themselves. Social media has also had the worse impact on teens, because of apps like Snapchat and Instagram have made drugs easy to find for teens.    https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/monitoring-future-survey-high-school-youth-trends Social Medias Influence     Social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat can display the habits of influencers and other students lives. Teens who are exposed to the social media are 2 times more likely to use some type of drug. Social Media also creates mental health problems for teens, when you pair use of drugs and bad mental health you can get substance abuse. Social Media has cr...
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How Does Gender Affect Mental Health

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      How does gender affect our mental health? do the differences in gender really make a difference in each individuals mental health? Studies say that girls are more likely to have  depression and eating disorders, they are also more likely to engage in suicide attempts. On the other hand boys are more likely to have anger problems and are more likely to commit suicide more frequently than girls. If both sexes have different problems but lead to the same conclusion, what causes these problems? https://www.who.int/gender/other_health/genderMH.pdf https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/gender-disparities-in-psychiatric-conditions/     I think that how kids are raised is a direct problem to mental health. Boys are often angry due to the way they are raised, there told to not cry or show no emotion, so there emotion just builds up until they just blow up, or they are told that they have all these responsibilities and stress...
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Growing Into a Masculine Society.

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    Masculinity are the attributes and quality's that are regarded to be characteristics of men.  over the past years "toxic  masculinity" has been one of the main factors in "White Male Suicide", males are statistically more prone to drug overdose and suicide. Us males grow through masculine environments all though child and adult hood, and grow up not knowing what kind of man they are. Is there a problem in the way we raise our men? and why are the problems showing up now? https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/02/toxic-masculinity-history/583411/ https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics/      In 2018 men died by suicide 3.5 times more than women, and white males take up 70 percent of suicides. 41 percent of boys in the us feel that they should express anger with violence. I think this is happening due to the amount of pressure parents place upon there children at a young age to be emotionally strong. The way parents raise childre...
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