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How to develop your paragraph
Essay: Risks Of Experimenting With Drugs

In a previous post we discussed how to write a focused thesis.
In this follow-up, we will focus on how to develop your paragraphs from your thesis.
A. Place key words from your thesis in your topic sentences
After you have focused your thesis statement, you should make sure that all your body paragraphs have a topic sentence that points back to develop your thesis. In developing your paragraphs place one key word or phrase from your thesis into each topic sentence.

For Example:
Thesis
Furthermore, there is cause for concern because experimentation and substance abuse, can lead not only to immediate failure in school, but also to drug addiction which can lead to serious health consequences and even death.
Topic Sentence 1
Although many young people see drugs as risky, exciting, and glamorous, drug and alcohol use are directly and negatively correlated with immediate failure in school and poor academic performance.

Topic Sentence 2
Over a time, drug use can cause a person to become psychologically dependent as the drugs gain a powerful control over one’s life, and the person becomes an addict.

Topic Sentence 3
However, the research shows that what begins as excitement and using one drug, could also lead to serious health consequences including overdose and death.
B. Write major and minor supporting sentences
See the Examples Below:
(1) Topic sentence: Although many young people see drugs as risky, exciting, and glamorous, drug and alcohol use are directly and negatively correlated with immediate failure in school and poor academic performance.
Major Support:
• “Teens who abuse drugs have lower grades, are absent from school more often, and have a higher school drop- out rate” (Bugbee et al., 2019; Arria & Du Pont, 2022).
• Further, statistics on studies related to marijuana use, support that “24% of U. S. high school students with mostly A’s, had used marijuana one or more times during their life, compared to 66% of students with mostly D/F’s” (CDC, 2017).

(Statistics in the form of a quotation is used as evidence).
(2) Topic sentence: Over a time, drug use can cause a person to become psychologically dependent as the drugs gain a powerful control over one’s life, and the person becomes an addict.
Major support:
• Major support: Teens commonly begin with alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana because of the ease of accessibility, peer pressure and the need to fit in.
• Minor support: Later, prescription drugs (like Adderall and Ritalin), are the most misused substances after drugs and alcohol.
• Major support: Further, “the misuse of over-the-counter medications is also common among teens because they are easily accessible and have mood-altering abilities” (Sandstone, 2022).
• Major support: When the user becomes addicted, the user may gravitate to other drugs, such as cocaine, amphetamine, club drugs, heroin and hallucinogens, all in an effort to maintain the high.
• Conclusion: Many teenagers feel these drugs are ‘cool’ and help them to win approval of their peers.
(3) Topic sentence: However, the research shows that what begins as excitement and using one drug, could also lead to serious health consequences including overdose and death.
Major support:
• Continued substance abuse can cause brain damage and can affect major organs like the liver, heart, and lungs, and can even lead to death.
Minor support in which an example is used:
• The mother of two brothers who died of heroin overdose said, “her sons were not bad kids they were sick kids trying to get well and the system failed them” (Wiedemann, 2016).
• Major support: However, programs like ‘Safety First,” that focus on educating kids about the dangers of substance abuse seem to have more promise.
• Major support: Programs like ‘Safety First,” that focus on educating kids about the dangers of substance abuse seem to have promise.
• Concluding sentence: If kids are given the facts, they can make informed choices.
C. End your paragraph with a concluding sentence or a transition sentence.
In the above paragraph, the final sentence is a concluding sentence.

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