Addiction is a very serious and difficult to treat disease, which is important to recognize as early as possible in order to take treatment measures that are still possible.
Dear parents, try to listen, take a closer look at the behavior of your son or daughter. Those who survived the grief of losing their own child will say: “Dig into their things, check their pockets, eavesdrop on conversations.” On the one hand, these are unpleasant activities that can distance children from you. But on the other hand, who knows, maybe don’t trust some parents to their children so blindly, mothers and fathers could save their lives ...
In no case do not diminish the danger posed by drug addiction. Do not try to adopt the slogan “in life you need to try everything” in pursuit of false “modernity” and “advancement”. With your loyalty, you can form a misconception in children about what is possible and what is not.
Unfortunately, the proper effect in the treatment of drug addiction is achieved only in 5-10 percent of cases.
Well study the first signs of addiction in order to identify the disease in time. Remember that it is better to play it safe and sometimes show excessive suspicion than to look at what is happening "through the fingers" and think that everything will somehow work out.
Do not disregard possible symptoms of drug addiction, such as a quick change of mood, unreasonable depression or excessive gaiety, if there are no special reasons for that. Look out if a teenager just said something enthusiastically, shared secrets, helped with household chores - and after a minute he “pouted”, became apathetic and did not want to explain his strange behavior. A quick change of mood may well indicate a beginning drug addiction.
A change in the rhythm of sleep is also a sign of addiction. For example, during the day the child does not leave the room, sleeps or simply lies in bed, and in the evening, upon returning from a walk with friends, becomes active and energetic. If the cause of the violation of the daily regimen is drug addiction, then everything is understandable: adolescents receive a portion of “high”, feel euphoric and it seems to them that they can turn mountains. It happens in the evening and at night - after taking a dose. In the morning, the accumulated fatigue makes itself felt, and adolescents can oversleep until the evening.
Do not miss and changes in diet. This is not entirely normal if your children do not want to eat all day, and after meeting with a group of friends or hanging out in a closed room they can easily “grind” several servings.
Yes, these signs may also be characteristic of a healthy child, but if only one of them manifests itself, well, or two, it is not pronounced. And if for some time you have stably found all three signs of a son or daughter, take urgent measures without waiting for “to pass by itself” or it seemed to you.
There are other signs of addiction. For example, the child abruptly became closed and silent, he is depressed and intractable. He made new friends about whom you know almost nothing, or not the best. At the same time, he communicates much less with old friends and relatives. It’s not a sin sometimes to listen to conversations with friends (even if these friends are familiar to you, but you now and then pick up strange phrases from their lips). Some novice addicts encrypt their conversations so as not to cause unnecessary suspicion. Decreased academic performance, loss of interest in recent hobbies, the development of inattention, forgetfulness - all these are signs of drug addiction.
Do not ignore some changes in appearance: circles under the eyes, periodically appearing strange gleam in the eyes and, of course, traces of injections.
It is worth the fear and increased financial needs of their children. You may even find the loss of money or any valuables from home. If you suddenly find dried grass, a strange powder of unknown origin, then this is almost direct evidence. Urgent and radical measures must be taken.
At the first stage of drug addiction, a person is sure that he can quit at any moment, because he still does not have physical pain - withdrawal, he just enjoys it. At the next stage, the drug is taken in order to maintain a “tolerant” state - otherwise there will be severe withdrawal. Having taken the drug, a person becomes vigorous and cheerful - he still enjoys the dose. But at least it should be reduced, as the disease goes into the third stage. Now the goal of taking the drug is not to get high, but to prevent withdrawal. The body is filled with poison, the personality is degrading, the brain is being destroyed. All this leads to death.
An addiction detected on time can be treated, and once waking up free from this heavy addiction, your child will definitely say “thank you”.