The Role of Parents in Drugs Prevention

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In today's era, almost everyone is familiar with drugs, even though they have never been in physical contact, but some types of drugs are generally known by the public. Drugs are a dangerous substance, drugs are abbreviated from narcotics, psychotropics, and illegal drugs. The dangers of drugs occur from the effects, both effects on the body and on behavior.

Effects on the body for drug users occur in changes in body shape such as electrolyte deficiencies and decreased immunity, so that in the end it will create conditions of damage to nerve cells, dehydration, hallucinations and various other negative effects, in addition to behavioral changes that have an impact on family and the surrounding community.

To prevent the above conditions, the participation of various components, both government officials and the general public, is required. Prevention is the easiest and cheapest way to control drug trafficking. In an environment that is still minimal or clean from drug trafficking, the prevention process will be easier to implement.

he easiest and most effective drug prevention can be carried out in the family environment. The family is the smallest part of society, however, if every family together implements the prevention of drug trafficking and use, it will eventually happen that the community environment in the area will be free from drugs.

The role of the family is very important in drug trafficking. Parents play a very important role in detecting early if their family starts to try drugs. Early detection can be done by paying attention to changes in the child's behavior. Changes in behavior usually do not occur immediately, but occur slowly.

There are several behavioral changes that indicate a child has tried to use drugs, and those are :

1. Unstable emotions

2. Sleep time changes

3. Have an unknown friend

4. Lack of appetite

5. Performance dropped drastically

6. Often lose valuables

If parents have found changes like this, then parents need to search for the causes of the changes in the child, because if they continue to be ignored, it is feared that more serious impacts will occur and the next process will be more difficult.

The steps that parents can take after finding changes in their children are as follows :

1. Discuss with children

No matter how heavy the problem with the child, then solve it with a discussion. Discussion efforts are easier to carry out if the relationship between parents and children has been closely intertwined for a long time, it will be different if parents and children rarely communicate or have been separated for a long time.

A child tends to prefer to convey his problems and his heart to people close to him. Therefore, it is appropriate for parents to be the first to get such a position. After discussing, it will be found answers to the causes of the changes that occur, whether influenced by drugs or not. Unstable emotions in children are influenced by various things, one of which is the effect of drugs

2. Pay attention to their time and activities

A child's activities will change from time to time, these changes will occur throughout his age. When entering the stage of adolescence, then the time will tend to be spent with their peers compared to their parents. Thus, parents need attention if they find changes in the use of time by the child, especially when sleeping, whether it is still reasonable or not.

3. Get to know the child's friend

Bye getting to know who the child hangs out with, parents will more quickly protect the child from various unwanted events, either falling into drug abuse or being involved in other criminal acts.

4. Pay attention to children's food

Eating patterns or eating habits need to be considered, when he no longer likes his favorite food, even when his eating becomes erratic, parents need to explore the cause. When children do not eat enough, it will cause malnutrition conditions that will affect their health. One of the effects of drugs is to reduce appetite, so it is necessary to pay attention to the causes of these dietary changes.

5. Pay attention to his achievements

A child who often excels will be very easy to recognize if there is a change in him. The drastic decline in achievement is an indication of a change in the child. In children who have used drugs, achievement will decrease, even not get achievement at all, because drugs damage the mental and reduce the child's passion to learn.

6. Pay attention to his lifestyle

A child who previously rarely spent a lot of money, suddenly can use large amounts of money, even valuables in the house are lost, then that is an indication that the child has tried to use drugs.

The Incidents like this will usually ignite the emotions of parents, but the best step is for parents to respond wisely, because violence will never solve the problem. Invite the child to have an honest discussion, ask him what the money is used for and where the valuables are sold. With openness, it is hoped that the problem will be resolved.

These are some of the efforts that parents can take to prevent drug abuse in children and adolescents. Prevention needs to be done as soon as possible. Because if prevention is not done, the effect that will occur will be very large which will destroy the joints in the family and society.