3. List of Problems
• Education
• Child Labour
• Drug Abuse
• Suicide
• Politics
• Media Effects
4. Youth Education
• Low Enrolment
Primary enrolment 57%
Secondary enrolment 22%
Higher education enrolment 1.9%
• Teacher’s do not posses enough
knowledge
• Rote learning is encouraged by teachers
• Madaris Education
• Govt. is not giving much preference to
education as to other fields
5.
6.
7. Child Labour
• Definition
• Categories Of Child Labour
Labour
Begging
• Causes Of Child Labour
• Effects Of Child Labour On
Ones Life
• What Child Labour Leads
To…..?
8.
9. Drug Abuse
Definition
Types of Drugs
• Alcohol
• Tobacco
• Herbs
Who Leads the Youngster to Drugs Abuse
• Media
• Bad Company
• Fashion
• Mental Disorder
10. Alcohols and drugs
Messages about tobacco and
alcohol are everywhere in
media.
Teens who see a lot of ads
for beer, wine, liquor, and
cigarettes admit that it
influences them to want to
drink and smoke
the three most advertised
cigarette brands are also the
most popular ones smoked
by teens.
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11. Drug Abuse
Effects of Drugs Abuse On Teenagers
•Physical
•Emotional
•In a School
•Family
•Social Problems
Substance Use, 1975-1999 Alcohol & Marijuana Use by Age
12. What does it look How is it
Type What is it called?
like? used?
White to dark- Injected,
Smack, Horse, Mud, Brown sugar, brown powder or smoked
Heroin
Junk, Black tar, and Big H tar-like , or
substance inhaled
Empirin compound with codeine, Dark liquid varying Taken
Codeine Tylenol with codeine, Codeine in in thickness, orally,
cough medicine capsules, tablets injected
Taken
White crystals,
orally,
hypodermic
Morphine Pectoral syrup injected
tablets, or inject
, or
able solutions
smoked
Smoked,
Paregoric, Dover's Powder, Dark brown chunks, eaten,
Opium
Parepectolin powder or
injected
13. Effective Period of drugs
DETECTION PERIODS FOR DRUGS IN URINE
Detection Period
ALCOHOL, ETHYL 3-10 HOURS
BENZODIAZEPINES HEAVY ABUSE 3-6 WEEKS
COCAINE 2-3+ DAYS
tobacco 1-4 min.
CODEINE 1-3+ DAYS
HEROIN 1-2 DAYS
METHAQUALONE (QUAALUDE) 2 WEEKS
MORPHINE 1-2 DAYS
PCP (PHENCYCLIDINE) 2-8 DAYS
ECSTASY 3-5 DAYS
PROPOXYPHENE (DARVON) 6-48 HOURS
(PROPOXYPHENE METABOLITES) 6-48 HOURS
2 DAYS -
ANABOLIC STEROIDS (ORAL)
4 WEEKS
2
ANABOLIC STEROIDS (INJECTABLE) MONTHS -
1 YEAR
14. Suicide
What is Suicide?
Teen Suicide
Reasons
•Depression & Stressful Situation Of Loss
• Uses Of Drugs
•Poverty
•Unemployment
•Family & Love Matters
15. Suicide
Suicide Rate
• 11th leading cause of death in 2000 (28,322)
• 8th leading cause in 1997 (30,535)
• 3rd leading cause of death for 15-24 year olds, 5th leading for
5-14 years old.
• 1.3% of all deaths are from suicide (double the rate of AIDS).
• Males 4x more likely to commit suicide.
Suicide Prevention
• Warning Signs
• Signs are often not verbal.
• Giving away beloved objects.
• Changes in eating or sleeping habits.
• Displaying a sense of calmness after a period of agitation.
17. Media Effects
Media offer entertainment, culture, news, sports, and education. They are an
important part of our lives and have much to teach. But some of what they teach may
not be what we want children to learn.
Television
Good Effects
Bad Effects
Violence
From media violence children learn to
behave aggressively toward others. They
are taught to use violence instead of self-
control to take care of problems or
conflicts
18. Analysis by PU students:-
61% of TV shows are violent
Few shows emphasize an anti-violence theme
40% of violent scenes on TV include humor
54% of the violence is lethal
51% of TV violence shows no pain
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19. Video Games:-
Positive effects
Video game playing introduces
children to computer technology.
Some games provide practice in
problem solving and logic.
Games can provide practice in use
of fine motor and spatial skills.
Games can provide occasions for
parent and child to play together.
Players are introduced to
information technology.
Games are entertaining and fun.
20. Negative effects
Game environments are often based on plots of violence,
aggression and gender favoritism.
Many games only offer an arena of weapons, killings,
kicking, stabbing and shooting.
Games can confuse reality and fantasy.
Playing violent video games may be related to aggressive
behavior
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21. Suggestions
• Do encourage each other
• Be practical
• Take help from Quran and sunnah
• Distribution of ideologies in the youth
• Do have patience to face the difficulties
• Do hate the deed not the character himself
• Prove and cash your skill
• Right man over the right place
• Youth should be clear about their future
• Be at arm length from the bad company!
• Do not make your parent as a role model for you
22. Suggestions Cont…
• How we can stand against western culture!
• Do not walk in parallel with any and ideology
first think!
• What is our today responsibility
• Problem should be solved form the very first
day! So don’t delay
• Do ask question!
• Build-up confidence
• Courageous