“Teen Subsatnce Use &A use(Alcohol, Tobacco, Vaping, Marijuana, and More)”. YouTube, uploaded by Oasis Mental Health Applications, 28 April 2020, https://youtu.be/wQl_4kcE5nw?si=DNrVBJkCTOLA1Cnx.

Summary

The video with visual context of teens using drugs explaining what can go wrong  being “down” with your friends. This can lead to the influence of substance use and in the video one of teens named Jeremy taken a different drug from a friend not knowing it’s not  marijuana but it’s K2 a synthetic weed that cause him to lose memory. The way he acted told by his friends caused him to have this unwanted popularity and stop smoking marijuana. At the end it’s told don’t take drugs you don’t know about and not prescribed to you, also casual drug use can lead to bad drug use problems.

Rhetorical Analysis

The YouTube channel for their video uses animations to convey the topic of hoe bad drug use is bad especially within teens.  The art style is fascinating and kid-friendly, using fast paced transitions all throughout the video. We don’t know who’s the narrator for the video but by the voice it’s a women that speaks in a good informational discovery type documentary voice . It’s really quick and short, but definitely helps you have a grasp just for the basic understanding on substance use. Starting from 0:30 to 1:03 it emphasizes on the fact that drugs can lead to negative side effects . With this example it can sort of scare the audience making them afraid to even take drugs anymore and teaches that even your own friend can slip you something without your knowledge. At 1:08 the kid understood the negative side effect and made not want to take any drugs and peer pressure or even trying to fit in, which  teens these days having that mindset leads to chronic substance use. It’s content from a team of people researching but with this video it doesn’t actually tell the vile effects from these drugs doing to a child’s brain .