| According to Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey | | | | understanding the negative effects on the brain, |
| conducted during 2008, in America nearly 47% of | | | | body, behavior, and health. Independent of the |
| the teens tasted an illicit drug by the time they | | | | age, many other factors make particularly |
| complete their high school education. As drug | | | | youngsters vulnerable to drugs. Youngsters are |
| abuse is widespread and the students are more | | | | often vulnerable to drugs, especially young culprits, |
| sensitive, many schools adopt drug-testing | | | | youngsters in institutional care like orphanage, |
| programs to detect drug abuse, to determine | | | | students with social or academic problems, and |
| student drug abusers, and to recommend for | | | | young people who live in underprivileged families |
| treatment if required. | | | | or neighborhoods where multiple risk factors and |
| Teens are vulnerable to drugs | | | | difficulties are concentrated. Marijuana has been |
| Young people are more vulnerable to drug abuse | | | | widely used illegal drug by the teens, which ruined |
| as they are in their preadolescence stage and not | | | | them, from many years. According to MTF 2008, |
| completely matured. They get attracted to the | | | | 42.6 percent of American youth tried Marijuana |
| word of assumed benefits rather than | | | | by the time they completed their high schooling. |