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So You Think Your Child Is Addicted?

November 9, 2016 By Recovery From Addiction Online Leave a Comment

Actions to Take if You Suspect Your Child is Becoming Addicted

Adolescents often let their curiosity get the best of them.

When that curiosity is combined with the longing to fit in with peers, it could lead to  children and teenagers using drugs or alcohol and eventually becoming addicted.

Children are brilliant when it comes to masking the symptoms of their drug addictions. However, intuitive parents typically are tipped off by their instincts that something is amiss with their kids. You can stop your children’s burgeoning drug use by taking these important steps to guide them back to sobriety and healthy living.

Get Professional Counseling Immediately

Kids who use drugs typically are not eager to obey their parents. They want their moms and dads to butt out and leave them alone. 

The last thing you should do, however, is leave them to their own devices.

Instead, you should immediately enroll your children in a professional counseling program so that a trained and licensed therapist can address your kids’ growing drug use. 

Therapists that specialize in treating addicted children know what actions to take when kids rebel and test their boundaries. The counselors can consistently yet empathetically enforce guidelines and broach topics that may be too toxic for parents to talk about with their kids. This consistent and professional treatment can break down the barriers and reveal the reasons why your children feel compelled to use drugs.

Stay Involved

Watching your children suffer with a drug addiction may generate a variety of feelings in you. You may want to yell and become angry; you also may want to turn around and ignore the problem. 

However, it is critical that you remain involved, no matter how tempted you are to ignore the issue or gloss over it by saying that the addictions are not that serious.

You must show your children that you are there for them and that you have no intention of abandoning them. You also must enforce the fact that you love them even if you are sad or disappointed in them.

You can stay involved by going through counseling with them. You may realize that your kids blame you for their addictions. They may think that you were emotionally or physically absent or that your own actions compelled them to want to use drugs or drink to escape family life. The counselor can help uncover these details so that you can address them and change as necessary.

Lead by Action

Your children may use drugs or drink because they see you doing the same. If you are addicted to drugs or if you indulge too frequently in alcohol, you may compel your children to mimic your behavior because they think it is acceptable or they believe it is the only way to get you to love them.

If you have a problem with drugs or alcohol, you need to address your own issue before you can expect your children to recover. By going through recovery yourself, you show that addiction has no part in your family and that you want everyone in your household to be healthy and sober.

Your children can succumb to drug and alcohol addictions.

You can prevent lifelong problems with substance abuse by taking these steps if you believe that your children are using drugs or drinking alcohol.

 

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