1. BY THOMAS KIMTEEN DRUG ABUSE

2. WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? Drugs have been very common with teens thesedays. More teens are exposed to drugs everyday. Leading to getting hospitalized and even death.. 3. WHAT KINDS OF DRUGS ARE WETALKING ABOUT? Most common known drugs that are being used: MDMA (Molly) Ecstasy LSD Cocaine Marijuana 4. WHAT MAKES TEENS WANT TO TAKEDRUGS? Teens are being influenced to take drugs throughvery common ways Through fellow peers/ friends Music Raves Parties Etc. 5. MUSIC AND DRUGS? Music influences teens to go to events such asparties and raves. The rave scene has evolved where a majority whoattend use drugs. The most common known party drug is Molly alsoknown as MDMA. 6. WHERES MOLLY? WHOS MOLLY? MDMA is a psychoactive drug that effects thebrain. It effects your adrenaline and serotonin receptors. Drugs such as molly make you feel stronger fromyour adrenaline levels and makes your mood muchhappier from your serotonin levels These effects are similar to ecstasy which is also awell known party drug. 7. A CLEAR EXAMPLE OF HOW TEENSWOULD BE INFLUENCED BY MUSIC TOTAKING DRUGS 8. HE FOUND MOLLY. 9. TRAGIC EVENT.. During EDC Los Angeles in 2010, a 15 year old bythe name of Sasha Rodriguez died of drugoverdose. The rave scene quickly made many headlines frompeople wanting to ban raves to riots in the streets ofLA. This event actually led to banning gloving fromraves. 10. SASHA RODRIGUEZ 11. WHY BAN SOMETHING SO SIMPLE ASGLOVING? Gloving is shockingly considered one of the biggestways to promoting drug use. I ABSOLUTLEY disagree with that because from 2011to 2013, gloving is now looked at as a new genre ofa type of dance. But sadly until this day, gloving is still banned inmany places. 12. IN CONCLUSION I chose this topic for my project because I wantedto show and explain to you why teen drug abuse issuch a big deal. I wanted to explain the history to how and whereteen drug abuse comes from. I hope you guys enjoyed! 13. WORK CITIED http://www.one80center.com/tag/overdose/ http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/30/local/la-me-rave-death-20100630 http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/mdma-ecstasy http://www.drugs.com/mdma.html