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How Drug Education Program Enhances Long-term Recovery

By Kimberly Ross


Loving parents, grandparents, and other family members, friends: The road to drug addiction is fraught with unhappiness, failure, lack of motivation, damage to body and mind, and even to a life of crime, violence, personal misery, and irresponsibility. And believe this when you read it: Your child is walking the fine line every day between a happy, fun-filled, responsible life and a life of substance-abuse and total misery. This article takes you through a low-cost drug education program.

In 2007, the president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, aggressively waged a battle on traffickers and peddlers. Regrettably the toll on human life has been unbearable. In 4 years, over 28,000 people have been killed. These killings are due to shootouts between traffickers and police, opposing gangs or slayings connected to its consumption.

Alcohol is uses up vitamins your body needs. That's why you feel tired and sick and have a "hangover, " after a night of drinking. Another substance is ecstasy, which does serious, long-term damage to the nervous system. It causes brain damage and even "holes" in the brain. The damage is permanent unless treated. Ecstasy is a hallucinogen that acts on the mind to cause people to see or feel things that aren't there. Hallucinogens are among the most dangerous drugs out there. They cause pictures in the mind to get mixed up, so that the users can't separate fact from reality. This results in permanent feelings of sadness, fear, or other feelings that have nothing to do with the present-life of the user.

It's human nature to think, "But my child would never do that. After all, he or she has not been raised that way." Unfortunately, that is nowhere near the truth and really is denial. Innocent parents and grandparents don't have a clue what to look for to determine if their loved one is using drugs. They don't know that their child is, perhaps, finding new friends, or becoming withdrawn, depressed, hostile and almost violent. Or the child is not studying as well as previously and has no core interests.

But the real issue what can you do about it? How can you fit in an educational program that doesn't take a lot of work or a long time and doesn't cost a fortune? It's easier than you think--and your effort will bring immediate results. You can have drug-fact booklets in your home for your child to read or for you to use when you sit down with your child to go over the facts.

You can use such materials to role-play situations with your young and innocent child so that they are ready to say no when the druggie comes a-calling. That's important--very important. From the child's viewpoint, it's usually better to place educational messages before him or her and let them read about it themselves rather than listen to a big lecture from mom or dad. But the literature has to be there to be seen.

Unfortunately, most parents or grandparents "are fiddling while Rome burns." They're acting as though all is well and that substance abuse is not part of the lives of their children. Then one day, they wake up to the reality that their child has been caught taking drugs. By the time parents realize what is happening, it is often too late.

The recovery program tends to motivate, influence and thus enable recovery of an addicted patient. Many individuals resort to normal life after spending valuable time in a rehab center. Ensure to check this out in case you or any of your friend or family member is under substance abuse and addiction.




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