Teenager's Drug Abuse And Family Therapy

In recent years, with the growing globalization of drugs, the spread of drugs has been extended to a range of more than two hundred countries and regions on five continents, and this has caused a series of social problems which is one of the major threats to international community. Resistance to drugs, correction of drugs, curbing drug sources become the goal that every government and people tend to achieve. However, with the rising of drug trading volume and the number of drug addicts, the trend of younger age of drug addicts attracts people attentions. Because of the teenager's unique characteristics of the physical and psychological developments, they have become the high risk group and main part of drug addicts. Drug abuse of teenagers as a serious deviance is caused by many reasons, include their own personal factors, but also the adverse effect of family and society. Correspondingly, the harm of teenager's drug abuse is also multifaceted, it's not only bad for teenager's physical and psychological health, but also will cause the adverse effect to their family and the whole society's harmony and stability. Therefore, in order to solve the problem of teenager's drug abuse, we must fully understand the reasons for their drug abuse and comprehensive intervene in every factor. However, I believe that the family therapy which takes the whole family as the intervention object is the most effective method. Because there are a lot of research resources show that a variety of defects in family environment is the main factor which lead teenagers to drug abuse, and the quality of family environment is also very important to teenager's development. Therefore, this paper tend to analyze the present situation of teenager's drug abuse, interpret the dangers of their drug abuse, discriminate the negative factors which lead to teenager's drug abuse, and finally introduce a family therapy to help them give up drug abuse more effectively .