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times & gauche, tired & withdrawn at others; he/she has most probably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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