Teenage drug addiction

INTRODUCTION

Teenage brain is in the process of maturing. In general, it is more focused to rewards and taking risk than the adult brain. At the same time teenagers push parents for greater freedom as teens begin to explore their personality. That can be a challenging tightrope for parents. Teens who experiment with drugs and other substances put their health and safety at risk. The teen brain is particularly vulnerable to being rewired by substances that overload the reward circuits in the brain. 

1. Gender refers to the characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed.  This includes norms, behavior and roles associated with being a woman, man, girl or boy, as well as relationships with each other. As a social construct, gender varies from society to society and can change over time. 

2. Gender influences people’s experience of and access to healthcare. The way that health services are organized and provided can either limit or enable a person’s access to healthcare information, support and services, and the outcome of those encounters. Health services should be affordable, accessible and acceptable to all, and they should be provided with quality, equity and dignity.

3. Consequently, women and girls face greater risks of unintended pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections including HIV, cervical cancer, malnutrition, lower vision, respiratory infections, malnutrition and elder abuse, amongst others. Women and girls also face unacceptably high levels of violence rooted in gender inequality and are at grave risk of harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, and child, early and forced marriage. WHO figures show that about 1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. 

CONCLUSION

Gender equality will lead to equal opportunities for people of all genders, everywhere. And health policies and program that place gender equality at their core will lead to better health outcomes. Gender inequality is not inevitable. But to sustainably improve health and well-being for all people, global health must move beyond the symptoms of gender inequality to address the root causes – this is the basis of a gender-transformative.