Marijuana addiction in adolescence

Many people indulge in unhealthy behaviors during the adolescence stage. Substance use greatly impacts the community, family, and victim. It could lead to social, mental, and physical health issues. For instance, the realization that adolescence is addicted to drugs such as marijuana could be a difficult issue to deal with for the parent. This is because one could hide the Pre-contemplation and contemplation stages of drug use. However, Marijuana use among adolescents could lead to poor performance due to its side effects of reduced coordination, inability to solve problems or think critically, poor learning and memory, and poor interpersonal skills. In addition, addiction could lead to schizophrenia, cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS), heart attack due to increased heart rate, and difficulty breathing. However, different procedures could be used for testing, treatment, and prevention. Some treatment systems include detoxification, intensive care, residential care programs, community therapies, outpatient services, and individual therapy. Intervention procedures could entail psychosocial approaches such as contingency management (CM), motivational enhancement therapy(MET), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). However, in handling marijuana addiction among adolescents, ethical issues could arise in decision-making. For instance, the healthcare provider could be in a dilemma of engaging family members without exposing the victim to victimization and misperception. Therefore, marijuana addiction among adolescents could lead to mental, social, and physical health issues, and some of the effective intervention procedures are CBT combined with MET and treatment procedures such as detoxification, intensive care, residential care programs, community therapies, outpatient services, and medical treatment although ethical issues could arise.