Drugs, including tobacco and alcohol, are easily available to children and adolescents.

As a parent, you
have a major impact on your child’s decision not to use drugs. Most likely, children in grade school have
not begun to use alcohol, tobacco, or any other kind of drug. That is why grade school is a good time to
start talking about the dangers of drug use. Prepare your child for a time when drugs may be offered.
Drug abuse prevention starts with parents learning how to talk with their children about difficult topics.
Then, the programs offered by school, sports, and other groups can support what you have started.

Communities play a key role in protecting adolescents from early substance use. Prevention efforts can
be implemented by building coalitions and comprehensive strategies to reduce risk factors for substance
use and addiction.

High level of stress is the biggest reason behind drug addiction. Stress can be due to various reasons.
Youth who have moved to different countries in search of job, generally face issues to adapt to the new
environment. They are more susceptible to get caught in the clutches of drugs.

Drug addiction can have a long-term influence on life. It can develop acute symptoms like trembling,
fatigue, anxiety, depression, insomnia, headache, sweating, chills, changes in behavior, paranoia, poor
coordination issues, nausea, dilated pupils, etc. The presence of drug in the body deluges the brain with
chemicals like dopamine and serotonin. The brain gets very much dependent on the drugs and can’t
able to function properly without them. The impact of drug addiction is also seen in newborns of drug
addicts and then affects their life. Drug addiction causes the liver of the addict to work a lot harder. This
causes a lot of damage the liver of the addict. It hampers the brain function, adversely impact daily
activities, impairs decision making ability, creates mental confusion, reduces memory and cause
permanent damage to the brain.