Tips to Parent to Prevent Drug Abuse

Any problem that confronts the member of the family specially if it is the problem of the children should be the concern of the adults or parents. Following are the suggestions to parents, to prevent drug abuse:

1. Create a warm and friendly atmosphere at home.
2. Develop more effective means of communication by being open, honest, frank about things that matter between them and their children.
3. Understand and accept their children for what they are and not for what the want them to be.
4. Develop and maintain mutual respect by showing faith and confidence in their children’s ability to think and reason clearly.
5. Always remember that they exert a profound influence in their children’s lives by service as models. Their children can see how they meet the stresses of everyday life which will be their basis in meeting future problems.
   

Psychologists and Psychiatrists agree that a happy family is the only solution to drug addiction.