Good morning, my honorable the judges and all participants. Let me introduce my self. My name is Shinta Ismi and I’m from 1 Demak High. Before I deliver my speech, let us thanks almighty Allah SWT. Because of His blessing, we can be here joining the speech contest with a good condition. Also, let’s not forget to always keep our hope for our Prophet Muhammad SAW’s help in the doomsday.
Ladies and gentle men, in this chance, I choose “Prevention of Drugs for Teenagers” as my speech title. Now, let’s see the hot news in our nation. Some moments ago, our government held an event in Jakarta with a purpose to keep the young generation from the attack of drugs. The reason to hold this event is because the drugs become more exist in teenagers’ life. But, the existence of drugs is not in the right way. It even can destroy teenagers’ life. How can? Before I explain it, I want define what drug is first.
A drug, broadly speaking, is any substance that when it is absorbed into the body of a living organism alters the normal bodily function. It also has a tendency to make the users become addicted to it. Truly, the uses of drugs in “medical world” are for diagnosing, curing, mitigating treatment or preventing from disease in man or animals. But, the truth is not only medical staffs that use drugs, but teenagers are also using it. Not for medical purpose such as to heal themselves from disease, but just for fun! That’s why I said drugs can destroy our young generation.
I’ll give the example. Ladies and gentlemen, you must know Putri Ariyanti’s case, right? Putri, the second president’s great grandchild, was grabbed to the police office. She was positively using drugs. Now, she has to free herself from drugs addiction. She still young, but she can’t enjoy her teenage life because of drugs. It’s pity, isn’t it?
Ladies and gentlemen, drugs have three main bad impacts for us. First, physically, organ system will be damaged, especially kidney and brain. No longer after that, some diseases will occur. Such as heart, skin and lungs disturbance, headache, even HIV / AIDS. Second, psychologically, drugs will make us unconfidence, difficult to concentrate, agitative, nervous and finally, drugs pull us to kill ourselves. Third, socially, drugs will change us to become anti social.
Based on those impacts, this nation has to remote the young generation from drugs. There are some ways to free the teenagers. We will find it after we know the reason. Now, the question is why do some teenagers use drugs? The answer is it can be caused by broken home, religious value degradation, influence from mass media, friendship, environment, less of activity and economic problem which can lead the teenagers into stress. Those are complicated things for teenagers who are still labile.
To prevent them from joining into the wrong way of life, we have to teach them about religious value. So, they can realize that they have the God who always be with them. Teenagers also need conducive situation. They should be kept out from stress. One way they can do is joining useful activity. Such as extracurricular or happy working for working teenagers. Family and friends also have important part to form teenagers’ personality. Make friends with a drug user will lead us to use drugs, too. So, family and friends should support the teenagers to choose good environment.
But, the most important thing we have to do is to give them attention. Ladies and gentlemen, teenagers need to be noticed and I represent all teenagers want to say that we want every people to confess our existence, we want you all to trust us and believe that we can do good things. Unfortunately, some of us are less of that attention. They fell to that darkness. So, what can we do? First, send them to rehabilitation centre to free themselves from drug addiction. Second, prevent them, so they won’t go back to use drugs again.
Ladies and gentlemen, drugs are so dangerous if it is not used properly, especially by teenagers. There are many bad impacts for their life. But, for every problem, there are always the solutions. The most important thing we have to do to keep our young generation from the dangers of drugs is by accompanying them to live in a good way.
The judges and all participants, that’s all I can say. Hopefully, it can be a good beginning for a better life in this nation. Thank you very much for your attention. Good morning.