Every parent dreams of educating and preparing their children to become good citizens, able to meet the challenges of our competitive society in the good health necessary to achieve this.
To be healthy means to be free from all drugs and preventing drug misuse ought to be an integral part of effective parenting. Parents are largely untrained to provide the complete and appropriate supervision in such traumatic circumstances at home.
Most of the advice given here is written to support you in the situation you find at home with teenagers. Still, it will be useful awareness for all parents whose children must grow up in a society where drug abuse thrives.
This booklet suggests seven strategies to enable parents to cope with their own family’s drug abuse problems at home.