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In recent years it seems that more teens are smoking marijuana and cigarettes and drinking alcohol.
Aside from the immediate impact of this disturbing phenomenon, it has worrying implications for their future, and it increases as the experience becomes younger.
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Wednesday, 31 March 2021, 08:00 Updated: 08:09
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A very worrying phenomenon.
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In recent years more and more teens are experimenting with smoking and drinking alcohol.
It now turns out that this problem has a worrying long-term effect.
A new study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, examined well the Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) that address, among other things, the age of onset of initial use of substances such as drugs, drugs, tobacco and alcohol.
Their findings show that the earlier young people start using these substances, the more likely they are to be addicted to them for life.
The researchers sought to examine the prevalence of drug-specific disorders since the first drug use or abuse of prescription drugs among adolescents and young adults.
The study suggests that adolescents and teens who experience marijuana and prescription drugs are more likely to become addicted to them than young adults who try these drugs for the first time.
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The new study led by a team of scientists at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the US, and sought to thoroughly understand how the brain matures responds to a variety of drugs and addictive substances are different.
Previous studies have shown that early exposure to marijuana, nicotine and alcohol can lead to more rapid development of disorders in drug abuse, drugs and alcohol But the new analysis cast a wider network and examined the effects of nine different drugs, including opioid painkillers, stimulants, marijuana, alcohol, cigarettes, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and sedatives.
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The findings showed that alcohol, cannabis and tobacco were the most common substances by the study participants.
The prevalence of lifetime use of these substances among adolescents who used them for the first time at an early age in 2018 was 26.3 percent.
"Happens much faster in an adolescent brain."
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Dr. Nora Volkov, senior editor of the new study and director of NIDA, said cannabis and other drugs are known to have a strong effect on adolescents' brains because they are still developing. As a result, drugs like cannabis are more likely to alter synaptic connections in the young brain, leading to stronger memories of pleasure and reward. "It's a learning process when you become addicted," said Dr. Volkov, "it's a kind of memory that connects to your brain. It happens. It's much faster in an adolescent brain. "
In addition, studies from recent years show that regular marijuana use can affect cognition in adolescents, leading to damage to parts of the brain involved in learning, thinking and paying attention.
According to data from the Ministry of Health from 2019, before the corona, if need be mentioned, 19 percent of youth in Israel smoke, of which 26 percent smoke e-cigarettes.
Segmented by gender, it can be seen that boys smoke more e-cigarettes than girls.
Between the ages of 15-12, 64 percent smoke e-cigarettes of all kinds.
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