Changes!

I decided to do a quick change and switch my Essential question to Do teens use drugs to self medicate or for social reasons? New interview questions coming.

Action Plan

I plan to raise awareness about the real reason teenagers use drugs. Whether it is to self medicate or for social reasons. They self medicate to get normal in order to calm themselves down and deal with people.

More Information....

Using the sites Mrs. Savido gave me I found more information on recovery methods. I read and outlined key statements in website articles to.

Interviewee

I have finally found my interviewee. It is my aunt who is a register nurse at Allegheny General Hospital who happens to work with trouble teens with behavioral problems related to drugs. I plan on sitting down with her soon and going over my questions.

Possible interview people

I found a couple of places located in Pittsburgh with programs associated with helping teenage drug users. The Addison Behavioral Care Inc. and Gateway Allegheny Valley. I plan in the next few school days to email these agencies on having an interview on a series of questions developed by me on the drug recovery issue.

Did You Know?

• Frostbite can occur on the lip or throat from inhalants.- "Inhalants" http://www.kidshealth.com/
• Over 83 Million Americans over the age of 12 have used marijuana at least once.- "Dual Diagnosis Disorder Treatment". http://www.drug-help.net/
• Drug effects can also be long term even after recovery.
• Therapy is one of the most popular ways in stopping drug use.
• Most teens began to use drugs at the age of 12.

Catching Up

Today in class I did a lot of the work, I was behind on some of the assignments and took the whole class hour to finish them. My teen drug collage turned out to be okay even though it was something I put together very quick. I started to complete my "Did You Know?" which needs more work. On Tuesday I plan on hopefully starting my Webliography.

Essential ?- What is the best method of recovering from drug usage?

Foundation Question

1. What is the most used drug by teens then and today?

2. How is a drug problem diagnosed?

3. What in marijuana makes it so addictive?

4. What age does most teens start smoking?

5. Can mental illness become enhanced by inappropriate drug use?

6. How many ways are there to recovering from a drug problem?

7. What are the influences that move teenagers to use illegal substances?

8. How can parents get involved in helping their children?

9. What are "hard" and "soft" drugs?

Going Deep

Today in class I decided to look further into the websites of my topic. So far I began picking out the key terms that are most related to teen drug use. The question I looked more into was the diagnosing treatments for an addiction.

Today in class I researched web sites on facts of teen drug use and the effects. During my researching I came over the fact that the percentage between white kids where higher than blacks which somewhat shocked me.