Do You Think Alcohol & Drug Abuse Are More Common Among Richer or Poorer Teens?
Question by : Do you think alcohol & drug abuse are more common among richer or poorer teens?
I have to write an essay for psychology class and I cant choose a side.
Rich teen have the money for drugs and alcohol, and poor teens may face more problems than richer need which leads them to do drugs & alcohol. What do you think?
Thanks for your help!
If you think its stupid then why answer it? I just need help with my homework lol…
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Answer by sophie
No offense but this question is stupid. Money don’t have anything to do with anything
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I don’t think the economic standing has anything to do with it. Both sides face the peer pressure so it’s rampant among teens from any type of family.
What do you mean, “do you think”? This isn’t an opinion. There is a right or wrong answer. Do some research.. don’t assume.
It seems like if the poor person is living out in the streets, they’re more vulnerable to get into drugs and alcohol because they’re living out in the streets. Someone who has money can commit such acts as well because of their wealth. When they do get in trouble, it’s easy for the to cover it up because they have money. Peer pressure and threats both do exsist in both factors.
I don’t think money has that much to do with anything.
Sure, if they’re rich they’ll have the money, but they would also have everything they wanted and would be less vaurnable.
A poor person could have a family who supports them also.
I would take a nutreal side, if that’s possible.
But if you have to choose, I would choose poor. They would most likely be faced with some sort of hardship and have to have sone sort of escape. Alcohol and drugs would be their escape.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t any rich drug addicts.
Try to create a compare and contrast essay. That way you could tell how drugs and alcohol effect both sides. Since you asked for a side though, it’s probable not possible.
Anyway, I hope I helped! It was kind of hard to put this into words..
Jordan 🙂
Where I live, it’s definitely more poorer teens. Richer teens are catching up but poorer teens are way too many steps ahead of them, no doubt.
Rich.
I’ve gone to a school with poor kids and rich kids. Currently with rich kids, i’ve never seen more drugs in my life. They have endless amounts of money, and they are bored and free to as they please. So they do drugs.
However, rich kids may have more drugs, the drugs the poorer kids did were way more extreme. Way more common for the poor kids to do coke and such. The rich kids are more inclined to do weed and acid.
personally, i think rich .
I go to a private school, and I can just see this kids.
It’s like .. our own little way of rebelling.
I can’t really answer that question, but there are definitely a lot of drugs amongst wealthy teens.
I live in a very affluent area and I attended an expensive private school for 11 years ($ 30,000 annual tuition). Cocaine was a very common drug because it was so expensive ($ 60/gram) that private schoolers felt elite and privileged. Weed and alcohol were common too, particularly expensive liquors from their parents’ liquor cabinets.
It was easier to get larger sums of money with less questions asked. I know my parents would hand me a few hundred dollars if I asked to go to the mall and wouldn’t bother asking what I bought. If teens didn’t get money through their parents, it was easy to find thousands of dollars worth of electronics or cash lying around in the open at school – and often times nothing stolen was ever missed.
When I was fourteen I began taking my dad’s Stella Artois, and by fifteen I was snorting coke a few times a month, taking oxycodone weekly, smoking weed daily, and getting drunk off of expensive cognac every weekend. It was a short lived phase (around seven months) though. I soon realized that drugs were begining to affect my life and I needed to keep my priorities (of getting into an Ivy) straight.