Teen Marijuana Addiction
Overview
Other Names for Marijuana
Some common names for Marijuana are: Pot, Grass, Herb,
Weed, Mary Jane, Widow, Hash, St.Nicholas, Reefer, Skunk,
Boom, Gangster, Kif, Chronic, and Ganja.
Teens today are using drugs at younger and younger ages,
when their brains and bodies are still developing. Of
all of the illicit drugs, marijuana is the most widely
used. If your child is exposed to drugs, he
or she will most likely be offered marijuana.
• Some frequent, long-term marijuana users show
signs of a lack of motivation (a motivational syndrome).
Their problems include not caring about what happens
in their lives and a lack of concern about how they
look. As a result of these symptoms, some users tend
to perform poorly in school or at work.
• Heavy or daily use of marijuana affects the
parts of the brain that control memory, attention and
learning and can make it more difficult to learn and
perform tasks that call for more than one or two steps.
• Smoking marijuana causes some changes in the
brain that are like those caused by cocaine, heroin
and alcohol. Scientists are still learning about the
many ways that marijuana can affect the brain.
• One joint can deliver four times as much cancer-causing
tar as one tobacco cigarette.
• In a study conducted by the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, a moderate dose of marijuana
alone was shown to impair driving performance; the effects
of a low dose of marijuana combined with alcohol were
markedly greater than for either substance alone.
• While not everyone who uses marijuana becomes
addicted, when a user begins to seek out and take the
drug compulsively, that person is said to be dependent
on the drug or addicted to it. In 2002, more than 280,000
people entering drug treatment programs reported marijuana
as their primary drug of abuse, showing they needed
help to stop using it. Some heavy users of marijuana
show signs of withdrawal when they stop using the drug.
They develop symptoms such as restlessness, loss of
appetite, trouble sleeping, weight loss and shaky hands.
• The marijuana that teens use today has more
than twice the concentration of THC, the chemical that
affects the brain, than the marijuana of 20 years ago.
• Young people who use marijuana weekly have double
the risk of depression later in life, and teens who
smoke marijuana weekly are three times more likely than
non-users to have suicidal thoughts. Marijuana use in
some teens has been linked to increased risk for schizophrenia
in later years.
We at Inspirations Teen Rehab understand the unique challenges of being a parent.
If you have any questions, please know that we are here to provide you with support
and guidance, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We welcome the opportunity to
answer your questions free of charge about teen drug rehab, teen
substance abuse, adolescent addiction, teen
intervention, teen behavior,
teen depression or other related matters.
Reach out to us. Teen Recovery is just a phone call away. If the information you
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