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How does a parent prevent their child from using drugs?
How do you talk to you kids about drugs?
What are the signs and symptoms of drug use?
What are the most successful methods of drug prevention?
What should you do if your teen is using drugs?
These are just a few of the questions parents are faced with
today. Our mission is to provide parents with useful information and
effective methods for keeping their kids away from drugs.
Contact us for information, literature and videos that are
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Reaching Our Children Before it's Too Late
Kids today are flooded with false information about drugs, faced
with peer pressure and various media influences. The message kids
receive today is that of the quick fix, less effort is better, and
that one should not have to work hard for what they desire in life.
This often leaves them with little ambition and a feeling that there
is no game in life. Drugs can be used as a solution to boredom and
the hopelessness they often feel. The risk taking and the effects of
the drugs themselves make life exciting again-at least for a short
time.
Advertising worldwide pounds them daily with messages to drink
beer, smoke cigarettes, to solve any pain, discomfort, inability to
sleep, or any emotional or physical problem with some medication
instantly and at once.
They see drugs and alcohol being used all around them, but are
being told that "they" shouldn't try drugs. In the United States,
the average age a young person is exposed to street drugs being
tried or abuse of medical drugs is 8 years old (the third grade).
This could happen even earlier if the child has grown up in a family
that abuses alcohol or medications on a regular basis. Helping
children to reach a sane and self-determined understanding of the
truths about alcohol and other drugs can save them and the world
enormous future trouble.
A full understanding of what drugs are really doing to a person
and the long-term consequences, allow kids to weigh their options
and come to a rational decision about them. The key to this is
providing them with the correct information, but also in such a way
that it relates to their world and their experiences. Our program
provides various educational information, videos and booklets that
contain the precise information that has been shown to increase
young people's perception of risk, and help them make the decision
not to use drugs. These are offered, in addition to the information
contained on this page as tools for parents in educating their
children.
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