{"id":10670,"date":"2015-10-08T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T12:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivbar4u.com\/blog\/?p=10670"},"modified":"2015-10-08T08:46:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T12:46:13","slug":"indicators-of-childhood-addiction-to-substances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ivbar4u.com\/blog\/indicators-of-childhood-addiction-to-substances\/","title":{"rendered":"Indicators of childhood addiction to substances"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indicators of childhood addiction to substances: What to look for?<\/a><\/h1>\n
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Indicators of childhood addiction to substances will be very evident when parents stay closer to their children.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When our children grow up we are often forced to release them to other people for care due to various reasons. Such reasons may include their education, our work schedule that does not allow us to have adequate time to spend with them and many others. As parents and guardians we still have a duty to ensure that they are well taken care of irrespective of their new places of residence whether temporal or permanent. And with the saturation of the drugs and alcohol in our neighborhoods we must up our sleeves to ensure that our children are brought up morally upright. It is for this reason that we want to focus our discussion on the indicators of childhood addiction to substances of addiction. To do this we are going to be talking to the experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center<\/a> under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury<\/a> to help us bring this topic into perspective. In view of this doctor Akoury says that we must first evaluate the accuracy of the problem at hand by answering the following questions: Do you suspect that your child is abusing alcohol or using drugs? Are you worried? Have you noticed some changes with your child? If your response to these is yes, then as a parent it is very normal to be concerned and that brings us to the next point of concern which is how are parents affected by their children\u2019s misuse of drugs?<\/p>\n

Before we discuss what you need to look for if you your child is misusing drugs, it is important that we find out how we are affected in the first place by our children indulgence in to drugs and alcohol<\/a>. Doctor Akoury is very categorical that as a parent your ability to be helpful in this situation will highly depend on how much you understand the significance of alcohol and drugs as well as how you much have been affected by their alcohol and drug use. And in fact, the most important thing you can do to help your son or daughter is first to commit to getting help and support for yourself! And to do that better, you must first understand how you have been affected, and find out if you need some help in answering these questions:<\/p>\n