By themselves, narcotic substances do not pose a problem: it arises through the fault of individual people turning certain substances into drugs and regularly abusing them. To recognize a child who uses drugs is the main task for parents. Dependence arises as a result of the relationship between drug use, the characteristics of a person and his social environment. What is the dependence on drugs in a child, learn in the article on the topic "How to recognize a child who uses drugs."
Young people who do not know how to cope with disappointment or throwing caused by personality traits or upbringing are more prone to emotional conflicts typical of a given age, and are more likely to find illusory salvation and consolation in drugs. To recognize a child who uses drugs is very difficult.
Youth and alcohol
Narcotic substance, currently creating the maximum number of social and medical problems, is undoubtedly alcohol, although the prevalence of other drugs attracts attention and is troubling. Most young people drink not only for the sake of pleasure, but for many other reasons that can be conditionally grouped as follows:
- The desire to feel comfortable and relaxed, communicate freely with others.
- Social pressure is either from friends, or from the media and advertising. It happens that young people try alcohol out of curiosity or out of a desire to personally experience something dangerous about which they talk so much.
Alcohol is used to get closer and relax with sexual intercourse, although in fact it has exactly the opposite effect. The attraction of alcohol for young people is also that it opens the way to the world of adults, whose views serve as reference points in many everyday situations. The problems associated with alcohol are invariably manifested in the health sphere. Young people do not suspect that alcohol consumption has medium- and long-term consequences, despite the fact that it regularly faces short-term consequences: personality disorders, frequent accidents and other incidents caused by alcohol abuse.
Drugs and teens
Psychotropic chemicals can be divided and recognized in groups according to their action on the central nervous system:
- Depressants (suppressors). Opiates (heroin, morphine, methadone), tranquilizers (valium, transilium) and hypnotics (barbiturates) interfere with the functioning of the brain.
- Stimulants. Narcotic substances that accelerate brain function are divided into potent substances (amphetamines, cocaine) and weak (nicotine).
- Alterative (modifying) substances. Some drugs change the functions of the brain, distort perception and cause hallucinations. These effects create hallucinogens (LSD), cannabis derivatives (marijuana, hashish), inhalers (acetone, benzene), so-called "designer" drugs (ecstasy). Now we know how to recognize a child who uses drugs.