Our youths engage in illegal acts,criminality,robbery and other activities because of the wrong way in which they abuse or misuse drugs.
You are correct that drugs have affected many youths but not only youths do drugs as drugs have been seen to taken by adults too in an abusive way and use for different purposes there are not meant for. Many people nowadays take or do drugs for many reasons which are not worth it.
For young adults, drugs have been turned to a panacea that forsees all their depression, emotional and social instability in the course of their everyday life. Many youths abuse or go into drugs as a result of peer group influence and it has done more harm than good to them. you know as a young boy growing up , their is a particular stage when one start getting to try out new things and explore beyond his or her boundaries which is going as far as taking or trying new substance they are introduced to.
Drugs especially hard drugs has great effect on youth in this age as alot of the youths have addict on these drugs they are taking.