BY Chase Jack <\/p>\n\n\n\n
March 30th<\/sup>\u00a0is National Drug and Alcohol awareness month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Drugs and alcohol are everywhere.\u00a0\u00a0I know everyone has heard the saying \u2018\u2019Drugs kill dreams\u2019\u2019,\u00a0but it is true they do.\u00a0For\u00a0example,\u00a0Chris Harren\u00a0was a basketball legend from Fall River Massachusetts\u00a0he was going from one level to the next.\u00a0He fell victim to drug abuse. Chris has\u00a0gone\u00a0through recovery after recovery and he got drafted by the Dever Nuggets, but was traded to his hometown Boston\u00a0Celtics. After that trade he fell victim to substance abuse again.\u00a0He ultimately\u00a0departed\u00a0from the NBA and began another mission.\u00a0He has been clean since 2008, and he now goes everywhere to speak to people\u00a0around the world about drug abuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Throughout the nation, 10 million young people (ages 12 to 29) need substance abuse treatment. Among the millions, only 1 in 10 adolescents who have a substance use disorder receive the professional treatment they deserve. Some of the most abused drugs are marijuana, cocaine, crack, opioids (including heroin), LSD, ecstasy, and methamphetamine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Among youth, the top 3 substances (in ranked order) are alcohol, marijuana, and vaping products like e-cigarettes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The use of marijuana is huge right now in our society it is the most common among teenagers <\/p>\n\n\n\n 86% percent of teenagers that knows someone who smokes, drinks or uses drugs. 50% percent of teenagers who have misused a drug at least once in their lifetime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 9\/10 individuals who abuse nicotine, alcohol or other drugs began using these substances before the age of 18. People who began using addictive substances before age 15 are 7 times more likely to develop a substance problem than those who first use after age 21. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There have been countless deaths due to complications involving drugs in the music\u00a0industry. Most recent juice\u00a0wrld\u00a0who\u00a0overdosed from\u00a0com. Mac Miller also\u00a0overdosed\u00a0with complications\u00a0involving drugs.\u00a0Furthermore there have been countless others. Drugs can\u00a0tare\u00a0a family apart quickly.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY Chase Jack March 30th\u00a0is National Drug and Alcohol awareness month. Drugs and alcohol are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}