Cheyenne Mallery

English 2

Ms. McKoy

10-15-12

“Identifying High School Students ‘At Risk’ for Substance Use and Other Behavioral Problems: Implications for Prevention”

            Hallfors et al argues that cigarettes, alcohol, sexual behavior, and other substances can cause adolescences to think about suicide, dropping out, and have lower GPAs. The authors claimed that problems like substance use, emotional, delinquency, alcohol, and tobacco use are common things to see when looking at teens. Hallfors et al develops this claim by first examining and observing adolescence and how they are affected by substances. The authors conducted experiments to examine how much teens were affected. Indiscriminate teens were chosen.  They also claim that it is hard to identify these problems because teens are not very open and hide how they feel.

            The results of the experiments showed that affected teens said that they do not like to spend time with their family, do not plan to attend college, have no knowledge of their parent’s lives, and do not do any type of school activity. The kids who were surveyed were broken up into two categories; high risk and typical. The results for the high risk kids helped prove the authors’ argument.

            This article is significant to my blog because it shows how teens feel and how they are affected by substances. I got a lot of information to support my blog out of this. There are lots of statistics that I can put into a graph or even just make into sentences.

Works Cited

Shereen Khatapoush, et al. "Identifying High School Students “At Risk” For Substance Use And Other Behavioral Problems: Implications For Prevention." Substance Use & Misuse 41.1 (2006): 1-15. Academic Search Premier. Web. 15 Oct. 2012.