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How to Find out if Your Adolescent Offspring is Using Drugs or Alcohol

How to Find out if Your Adolescent Offspring is Using Drugs or Alcohol

Focus on their eyes. After your adolescent child comes back home from a get together, pay attention to the adolescent’s eyes. If the eyes are red and heavy-lidded, with constricted pupils, it is a sign of the adolescent having used marijuana. If the pupils of the eyes are dilated, and if he or she is finding it hard to focus, he/she has most probably been drinking alcohol. 

Sniff it out: Engage in a head to head discussion with your adolescent. If the adolescent has been drinking alcohol or smoking, a foul smell shall emanate from her/his breath, hair, hands and clothes. An atypical stench coming out of his/her room (like tobacco smoke), use of incense sticks or air fresheners to disguise other smells, it’s important to find out what’s going on.

Frequent Mood Fluctuations: If your teenager is noisy, loathsome & panic-stricken at some times & gauche, tired & withdrawn at others; he/she has most probably been drinking alcohol and/or using tobacco/marijuana/other drugs.

Look out for pretense or slyness: If the plans of outings of your adolescent child start to come across as suspicious and downright vague and when they start telling you to mind your own business instead of interfering in their personal lives, something is definitely wrong and it’s time for you to take action.

A few more factors to look out for:
·         New cravings and an increased appetite
·         Alternatively, a sudden lack of appetite
·         A change in the friend circle
·         Complaints from teachers about misbehavior in class
·         Poorer grades

Kids may obscure alcohol, drugs, and drug paraphernalia in the following places:

  • Inside Desktop CPU's
  • Desk drawers
  • CD/DVD/Tape/Video cases
  • Small boxes – jewelry, pencil, etc.
  • Backpacks/duffel bags
  • Under a bed
  • Inside books with pages cut out
  • Under a loose plank in floor boards
  • Inside over-the-counter medicine bottles

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