Discover How Your Child Got Into Drug Abuse And Addiction.
Children And Drugs: How They Fall Into Abuse and Addiction.

You may think that your child is far from that world, as his young age and innocence of thinking contradict entering that dark circle.

But unlike reality, there is a not weak relationship between children and drugs, which has resulted in a wide demand for children to take narcotic substances and reach addiction to them.

And this is due to Several factors may have caused your wrong behavior to push him/her to do so, so in order to save him/her from that way, know the causes of child abuse, and how to treat drug addiction.

How do you pay your child to fall into addiction?

“I can’t believe that my child is addicted.” This is the first sentence that the families of addicted children say when they discover their drug use, so they enter a state of denial, shock and disbelief in reality.

Then accepting the truth, but what they deny more and may never know is that they may be the reason for strengthening the relationship between Children and drugs and push their children to become addicted with their wrong behavior and behavior about education, and in order to avoid being like them one day, know the reasons that may push your child to use, and how to deal with a drug addict.

1. Domestic violence:
Domestic violence, whether with children or between spouses, the absence of understanding and the language of dialogue, and the use of incorrect educational methods such as beatings lead to the children’s desire to escape from that toxic environment of drug abuse.

2. Failure to provide support and trust:
Lack of confidence in children and lack of support and love leads to their constant feeling of inferiority and loss of self-confidence and the desire to prove themselves, which leads to the use of drugs to compensate for that feeling.

3. Excessive giving of money:
We know that you want to provide your child with the highest possible financial level and want to meet all his needs, but the extravagance in giving money without supervision turns your child into prey in the hands of drug dealers, who seek in various ways to attract him to them.

4. Parents' drug abuse:
If you abuse drugs or alcohol at home, its harm does not stop with you, but rather is transmitted to your children, who deal with it as a normal part of their lives and seek to imitate you and follow the same behavior of abuse.

5. Absence of family control:
Giving your children some freedom is required, but the complete absence of your parental role, the lack of supervision and evaluation of their wrong behaviors, and the follow-up of their social surroundings of friends and places they frequent, leads to their easy slipping into the cycle of abuse and falling into addiction.

The Most Important Symptoms that Indicate Drug Abuse in Children:

In the event that your child has become addicted to types of drugs, he will certainly in that case will show different symptoms, through which you can discover whether he is using or not, and start treating him early before the situation deteriorates, and you will not be able to save him.

1. Sleep disorders:
At the beginning of the route of abuse, you will find that the child suffers from lack of sleep and constant insomnia at times, while on some days you may find him sleeping for very long periods.

2. Unstable mental state:
When the child takes drugs, you will notice that his psychological state is unstable, and that he suffers from severe depression, and your child will also suffer from severe mood changes, where you will find him laughing and other times sad and crying.

3. Aloofness and Introversion:
When the child begins to abuse, you will notice that he has become completely isolated from everyone around him, and he prefers to be introverted and separated from everything in the environment around him, and you will also find that he always runs away from problems and confrontations.

4. Health problems:
When the child begins to use, you will notice that after a period of side effects of addiction appeared on him, which is a noticeable weight loss and always redness of the eye, and he often faints, and he feels dizzy and dizziness all the time.

5. Frequent demand for money:
Your child will ask for money a lot under many names, whether for food or for studies, and he may also be able to steal and sell home belongings to get the drug.

6. Not paying attention to outward appearance:
Your child will notice a sharp deterioration in his external appearance, between pallor of the face, redness of the eyes and the presence of dark circles, in addition to bad breath, blue bruises on the arm, and lack of attention to general hygiene as before.

7. Change the circle of friends:
The type of friends in your child’s life is an indication of his goodness. When using, you will notice a change in the usual circle of friends and the presence of new friends who share drug abuse.

8. Regression in academic level:
When the child uses the drug, the academic level declines, his continuous absence from school, and the lack of focus in lessons because he is preoccupied with obtaining the drug.

How To Protection Children From Drugs:

The factors of drug prevention and treatment depend on many things, and also need the cooperation of the family, schools and society so that we can control this crisis, as the following must be done:

1. Awareness of students in schools:
Schools must educate students about the severe danger caused by drug addiction, and the school must be aware of the degree to which the child has reached drug addiction, and seek treatment for it.

2. Consciousness of parents:
Parents must be aware and aware of the dangers posed by addiction, and tell their children about them so that a psychological barrier is created between them and the drug.

3. Preventive measures:
Decisive measures must be put in place by the state to limit the spread of drugs, and the drug problem must be included in the media so that citizens are made aware of its extreme danger.

4. Study Aids:
The syllabuses must contain a part in which the dangers of taking different drugs to humans are discussed. The curricula for all academic years must include talking about drugs and their dangers. The school must also exploit the spread of drugs to encourage students to stay away from them. And resistance to abuse The school must also begin to persuade students who abuse to stay away from drugs completely, and to report the distributors inside the school, so that drugs are eliminated inside schools.

Coming to the important part...

How to treat children from addiction?
This is done by joining an addiction treatment clinic and going through a treatment plan that includes several steps, including:

1. Treatment of withdrawal symptoms without pain:
It is the first stage of treatment, which many may fear, in which the patient completely stops using the drug, and the resulting drug withdrawal symptoms are treated through a drug program, and they pass easily and without pain.

2. Psychotherapy and behavioral rehabilitation:
In the second step of treatment, the patient is psychologically rehabilitated and the causes that prompted addiction are treated, in addition to changing his way of thinking and general behavior, liberating him from the drug's control over him and restoring confidence in himself again.

3. Surrounding yourself with a supportive therapeutic community:
The patient will be surrounded by a therapeutic community that gives the child support and surrounds him with feelings of love, which encourages him to continue treatment and prevents him from being exposed to any motivating factors that encourage him to use, whether they are places or friends, in addition to preventing the diversion of any narcotic substances to him.

4. Training the child to resist thoughts of abuse:
The patient is trained to resist compulsive thoughts to use the drug and learn how to control them and distract the mind from thinking about them.

5. Relapse prevention:
At the last stage of treatment, the patient is trained to coexist without using drugs, to deal calmly with pressures and situations, not to escape from them, and to give training courses to return to school life again.

Children are the heritage of God, if you take good care of them you shall reap the fruits thereof.

Chris E.

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