Warning his children about the problems of drug

SWISS INSTITUTE OF PREVENTION OF THE ALCOHOLISM AND OTHER DRUG ADDICTIONS

As most of the parents, you are worried by the problem of the drug

Do you ask yourself questions on that subject ?

You try to adopt a preventive attitude with your children ?

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

As you, we are convinced of the prevention of the drug addictions beginning in the family, in the relationship between adults and children, through the reinforcement of the esteem of themselves.

The results of recent studies demonstrate it clearly : the earlier the prevention begins, the more efficient it is.

Him n ' is not inevitably necessary of to be a specialist of the drug addictions to approach this subject with your children.

The essential is elsewhere, in the dialogue, in the listening, the reciprocal trust.

It is in the gestures and words of all the days that you are going to weave a relationship allowing you to warn the problems of drug.

You hope that your child succeeds in the life, qu ' it develops his intelligence, his talents and his abilities, that it finds afterwards a work that pleases it.

<U[N'oubliez]> not though that the school pressure is already strong and only some children n ' do not arrive to to make face.

A child can have the feeling qu ' one asks to him too much, qu ' him n ' is not to his place to the school.

It chances to depreciate, indeed to crack psychologically.

Yours of supporting your child, of giving him trust.

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

However, him n ' exists no evident sign that marks clearly the beginning of a consumption or a proved dependence, nor no obvious clue qu ' an individual drugs itself.

Of the also striking facts qu ' an inexplicable fall of school performances, small flights or still repeated delinquent acts are not inevitably a sign of consumption of drug or of dependence.

Such problems of behavior also can have bonds with the puberty or of other temporary difficulties (for example overwork or a passionate disappointment).

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