this is the know generation they feel disenchanted with the world around them while they may for the most part be outside the mainstream of american life they are a part of the wave of the defines the word know as meeting at the moment or had one seldom has a nation been able to with this such an explosion a new mass mind unknown this as it takes place today we are see then older generation could learn about fresh thinking from their energy is boundless they play hard but they are also involved they are free thinking for the most part and not afraid to voice their criticisms but many more of them have simply dropped out they have made what they consider their own peace with america and are now involved in finding out who they are discovering the inner man cannot be minimized but a nation hand turmoil need to the bigger the newness of a just this exploration this search for new bands as lead into a new and dangerous area the use of narcotics and hallucinogens the brain the body indeed the freedom to do can be so jeopardized by these drugs that new politics bore realistic values and a meaningful less materialistic society may never have the opportunity of becoming a reality but turned on people who seem to set many of today's lifestyles are not the only ones smoking gras popping benny's shooting speed or dropping acid if they were the problem would be somewhat less tragic these practices have spread to colleges high schools and even elementary school the students are being exposed to drugs that many of them believe are without lasting busy illogical or mental effects on the contrary these substances are extremely dangerous this trend toward drugs has alarmed  responsible segment of the community they know that there are inherent risks in the drug experience there is a medical risk to the brain and body perhaps the biggest risk is the placing of the psyche in peril at the moment the students are striving for something in time they may become total dropouts from a world that needs desperate only what they can offer to try and cut through the un do propaganda on both sides of the drug dr john a borrowed medical director of narcotics education with the los angeles district attorney's youth advisory council clarifies the extent of the drug problem and the term addiction but i think the use of the word addiction has definitely obsolete and it's been a very unfortunate thing that it is then used to try to define whether a drug is harmful or not this use of the word addiction was started with the world health organization in one thousand nine hundred eighty and they have realized their great mistake in this and have recently in one hundred sixty five completely redefined drug problems another term we know that the drugs have to effect that cause dependency or the desire for the use of the drug and the most important one and the one that was not emphasized in the previous definition is the psychic dependence the dependence of the person from a mental point of view upon meeting or desiring the drugs now there is also with some drugs physical dependence one important part of the drug problem is that so many substances are available or are being made available for use dr barros describes some of the major ones and  effects from the complete anesthetics are the ones that will put you entirely to sleep we can go into the depressants are the downers as they're known and these are of course primarily the barbiturates these are known as the  is necessary to take more and more of the drug to produce the same effect however this tolerance is limited now under the effects of the drug there tends to be a distortion of time and of course the person is confused and the person may accidentally take more drugs than he had anticipated forgetting that he had just taken a dose a few minutes or in addition to this the barbiturates when withdrawn do produce a physical dependence or withdrawal type reaction and with the barbiturates is a marked tendency for the person to develop convulsions grandma convulsions or seizures and unless these are controlled they can lead to the death of the individual after the  mild form of stimulant drugs used in medicine for appetite control and in certain diseases in medicine we might give five to ten milligrams of dexedrine or  drug methamphetamine meth adrain which is known among drug users as speed as incredible as it may sound the person who is using this drug as a drug user will smack or main line that is take intravenously thousand milligrams one hundred times the dose that any person would give and the medical use of this kind of drugs and the effect is overwhelming type overtones his blood pressure may exceed three hundred millimeters of mercury and as you know normal blood pressure is perhaps one hundred ten or one hundred twenty millimeters at the same time his heart is beating at a fantastic rate maybe from this as the drug begins to wear off there's a tremendous psychic reaction and a and over reaction so the person becomes markedly depressed severely depressed which in itself is enough reason for him to want to take more drugs or perhaps to take barbiturates to ease this feeling of anxiety and depression or other drugs or back then that their speed again depression is so marked that the person may wish to and sometimes describes two more categories of drugs the delivery and and marijuana and the marijuana of the delivery and start of the drug such as the glucose the the glue sniffing which include gasoline ether paint centers even some of the older and have been used they like all the other drugs produce a mind changing effect so that the person feels a airplanes can get into the nose or mouth that causes a real burning of the news this membrane and concise rather severe damage and it is becoming overwhelmingly other than that an increasing number of children are showing up with brain damage marijuana dr burroughs pointed out that a good deal of the confusion concerning the effects of this drug is due to its very low concentration in american marijuana for grass smoking typical pot usually produces mind altering or hallucinogenic experiences though sometimes it has little or no effect on some people but as the drug becomes more concentrated it has all of the effects of any of the i think it becomes obvious after having categorized all these drugs we now talk about all these different categories one thing keeps coming up all the time and that is the drug dependence mind changing our mind altering effect of all of these drugs the unfortunate person who gets started in that finds himself getting into an ever increasing of this story starts out with the i have a kick around high and that'll do something for me well it's true these things  have a kicker obviously people wouldn't try them but the trouble is the person then gets involved in this vicious cycle the cat becomes something that is not as good as he thought it was he finds by using his drugs that he has lost his capability to be responsible he's lost his ability to be a worthwhile successful students or successful individual so he starts to seek ways to help them and the only way he can seek since he's using the drug now to avoid the reality of his failures is to take more drugs and down and down he spends and he spends into a situation where he is virtually buried alive in a chemical tune this is the problem of drug dependency one of the most tragic things about all the as far as teenagers are concerned is what this does to the teenager the teenager is a person who is finally grown up to the point that he can begin to struggle with making his own personal decision and he makes these decisions and finally learned how to do them and when he has gone through this decision making process he suddenly turns from a teenager to him that your adult one of the things that will stop a cold sooner than anything else is the taking of drugs because in taking the drugs a person is doing exactly the opposite of what he's trying to do as a teenager he is putting himself into a position where he cannot make decisions where he is only are responsible and incapable of doing this and he is cutting his life lost but there are other reasons not to smoke marijuana or to take dangerous drug them is illegal it is not as many seem to believe today and unenlightened law nearly every country in the world including the united states is a signatory to an international law banning the use sale cultivation and possession of dangerous drugs that have no useful place in medicine such as heroin and marijuana the gamble of drug exploration worth this is it worth the physical and mental risk as well the courts today are crowded with young offenders tragically many of them are from good homes they're well educated and have opportunities that are available in no other country in the world one immature and irresponsible action for whatever motivation can bring serious fines prison terms or both a criminal record is never an asset it can mean  the drug question is a subtle one this is an age of change and age when society and authority are constantly being shot and all too often drugs have played a part in or have been used as a principal means of rebellion against authority but drugs are not the proper tool with which to confront the change of society that somehow hasn't fulfilled all its promise quite the contrary drugs rob the energy the attention the very ability to see what is and the ability to work for effective changes of any kind depends on clear and discipline mind those who take drugs to produce new insights or for self discovery or for a host of other romantic reasons find themselves snared and deluded illicit drugs are sold for a price the price of helplessness and suffering for the buyer for their greed and gain of the seller many of today's young people are meeting the challenges before them they are turning on to a world that needs more the police they need the active cooperation and the involvement of unlikely parents school church and community leaders but above all the need is for clear thinking young people who are the most involved then who have the most to lose communication has broken down between the younger and older generation it must somehow be really a staff at the same time it will be necessary for the young to communicate common sense one to the