With the proliferation of various addictive drugs and new drugs, young people, especially adolescents, account for a significant proportion of the rapidly increasing number of addictive drug users, and in Guangdong and other provinces, cough syrup abuse and addiction has quietly spread among adolescents, who have become a high-risk group for cough syrup abuse. Why are teenagers addicted to cough syrup? What kind of psychology motivates adolescents to abuse cough syrup in large quantities? These issues have attracted the attention of society. 1, curiosity adolescence is a special period of physical and mental development, in this period, adolescents are curious, but the development of the self is not perfect, lack of self-control and the ability to analyze things. Many adolescents are driven by curiosity to start contacting cough syrup. Some children hear their peers say that drinking cough syrup has a good feeling, that it is a drugstore drug and that it is not harmful to the body, so they are moved to “try it”. 2, the pursuit of fashion There are other children drinking cough syrup in schools and classes, and there is often no shortage of children among these children, forming a small group, forming a subculture in schools and classes, they advocate “drinking cough syrup is fashionable”, “is the capital to show off “, leading many teenagers to drink cough water as a fashion, the trend, must try it, so as not to be outdated. 3, to relieve worries When young people enter adolescence from childhood, which is usually referred to as adolescence, there are many physical and psychological changes that are difficult to adapt to. It is important for them not only to expand their knowledge, but also to learn to face the pressure, worries and frustrations brought to them by social life. Since they have not yet formed an independent personality, their lack of psychological tolerance makes them unable to cope with the worries brought to them by physical changes, as well as pressures such as family breakups and academic failures. Therefore, at this stage, many adolescents usually go through a period of short-term depressive states such as boredom, anxiety and frustration. As they do not know how to face this feeling, drugs become a good medicine for self-medication of teenagers. 4. Stimulation Seeking Because young people are energetic, novelty-seeking and stimulation-seeking, they are very susceptible to temptation. There is a middle school student, always feel that the usual home, school two-point reading life is too monotonous, very bland, want to find some stimulation, relaxation, relaxation, venting, seeking a stimulus. A young friend took cough syrup to him and told him that eating this would be very exciting and comfortable, and that he could have anything he wanted. After witnessing his best friend drink cough water furiously, he followed it without hesitation. 5, rebellious psychology Adolescence is a period of budding and developing self-awareness, a strong sense of independence, especially prone to rebellious psychology, and often in an abnormal way – such as smoking, drinking, drug use and other behaviors that exceed social norms. For example, adolescents usually resent didactic things, and if drug education is too empty and preachy, he will develop the mentality that the more you don’t let me take drugs, the more I’m going to try it. 6. Peer pressure Young people in adolescence usually have a strong psychology of freedom, eager to get rid of their parents’ constraints and establish an independent social circle of their own. Some studies show that adolescents believe that the importance of friends even more than their parents or teachers. So when some teenagers see others drinking cough syrup, they follow suit. Even though they know that cough syrup has been included in the new drugs, they are afraid that others will think they are out of touch and not bold enough to be excluded from the small group by their peers and thus participate in the group of cough syrup abusers out of concern for their friends’ righteousness.