Causes of Using Drug

Drug is a serious issue happened in our society for ages. It occurs in many forms and causes trouble, which affects individual and society as a whole. It is reported that more than 16,575 Cambodian people are drug-addicted.  Why drug is used among Cambodian people? What are the causes of drug usage? To understand deeply, we have to think about some factors that are the causes of people, especially adults using drug. Indeed, there are three reasons why individuals use drug: peer pressure, loneliness, and curiosity.

The first reason of individuals using drug is due to peer pressure.  They associate themselves with wrong people. That’s why those people may lead them to use drug. It is natural that people surrounded by others who are drug-users are also using drug themselves for some time, since they easily fall prey to peer pressure. They may not realize that peer pressure would lead them to be a part of those people, as saying in a proverb “Birds of a feather flock together.”

Drug-users may probably feel lonely inside themselves. Since they want to feel good for a few moments, they might think of using drug to relieve themselves from feelings of emptiness and stress, regardless whatever results would affect them. Psychologically, some drug-addicted people start using drug because they think they will avoid the situation they are facing with and forget all problems they have.

Finally yet importantly, people, specifically adults use drug owing to the growth of their curiosity toward it. As society fills with toxic things, especially when the drug becomes rampant, curios-minded adults want to experience how it tastes. They will fall prey to drug after experiencing for some times. They are not always bad people but victims. For instance, in some specific movies, it shows teenagers are passionate and want to use drug when they hear their friends talking about how it makes people feel.

To sum up, drug usage is a major problem in our society. It has been used among young people because of peer pressure, loneliness, and curiosity. It shall be a time government as well as related to institutions have to find effective solution for this serious matter in order to make our society free from drug.

⏩⏩⏩Note: This Cause and Effect essay is just for my homework, which I submitted to my English Writing Skills II class (at Department of Media and Communication, Royal University of Phnom Penh.)