AT HOME

In his book, 123 answers about drugs, Dr. Içami Tiba, says that for an efficient influence, it would be necessary for the parents to lose the fear and prejudice towards drugs and talk freely with their kids. Generally, parents avoid this type of conversation out of fear that, by doing such a thing, their children might turn towards drugs, and that's would they want the least. Maybe parents ignore the fact that their kids might know more about the subject than they do, and that some of them have already even tried or already been drug users. There are adolescents whose parents only find out they're doing drugs after a year or two. It is necessary to talk a lot about drugs, but the most important is the positioning towards the subject, in other words, the personal, family, social and even religious values, if the adolescent is religious. The essential thing is to know the child’s values, to conduct the conversation adequately. There is the need to point out all the harm drugs can cause, most of all from the child's point of view. The more one knows about the problem, more conditions one has to face it. Drug use can represent a critical period for the family and disable its routine. If the motives of this crises are not understood and worked, the family will be have a hard time overcoming it. However, when a child has already involved himself with drugs, it is important to go to the secondary prevention, that is; stopping the progress of drug use and treat its complications. In this phase, there is the need to seek the help of people specially prepares, such as psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, active members of anonymous help groups, such as Narcotics Anonymous or Alcoholics Anonymous. Who is really interested in solving the problem will certainly find an option. Rejecting the treatment for not finding who will treat it is inconsiderateness and accommodation. Since the secondary prevention is activated when the primary has already failed, it is less likely for the family to get any result if it decides to take care of the child alone in this phase. Even because the problem might be in the family, being the addict nothing more than the most apparent symptom of this problem. Normally, the family and the addict need simultaneous help, and these kinds of treatments are more efficient.

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