To warn his/her children of the problems of drug

SWISS INSTITUTE OF PREVENTION OF ALCOHOLISM AND OTHER DRUG-addiction

Like the majority of the parents, you are worried by the drug problem



You put yourselves questions on this subject?

You seek to adopt a preventive attitude with your children?

Through concrete examples, this small guide will give you some tracks to be helped.



Like you, we are convinced that the prevention of drug-addiction starts in the family, in the relation between adults and children, through the reinforcement of the regard of oneself.

The results of the recent studies show it clearly: the more the prevention starts early, the more it is effective.

It is not inevitably necessary to be a specialist in drug-addiction to tackle this subject with your children.

Essence is elsewhere, in the dialogue, in listening, reciprocal confidence.

It is in the gestures and words of tous.les.jours that you will weave a relation allowing you to prevent the problems of drug.

You wish that your child succeed in the life, that it develops his intelligence, its talents and its competences, that it finds then a work which it likes.

Do not forget however that the school pressure is already strong and that certain children are not able to face there.

A child can have the feeling that it is asked him too much, that it is not in his place at the school.

He is likely to devalue himself, to even crack psychologically.

With you to support your child, to give him confidence.

When the behavior of your child is obviously worrying this could mean problem of drug.

However, there is any obvious sign which clearly marks the beginning of a consumption or a proven dependence, nor no manifest index that an individual takes drugs.

Facts as striking as a fall of school performances unexplainable, small flights or of the repeated delinquent acts are not inevitably a sign of consumption of drug or dependence.

Such problems of behavior can also have links with puberty or other momentary difficulties (for example of overwork or a disappointment in love).


The best way of knowing it consists in speaking directly with your child about this major concern.