What's The Likelihood of Your Child Experimenting with Drugs or Developing An Addiction?
Tell-tale indicators in your child's current behaviour could mean that they will be more prone to experiment with drugs or develop an addiction later on in life.
West Sussex (PRWEB) May 10, 2006
Apparently, tell-tale indicators in your child's current behaviour could mean that they will be more prone to experiment with drugs or develop an addiction later on in life.
A new and innovative online questionnaire has just been introduced (the first of its kind) to help parents highlight a propensity of their child experimenting with drugs or developing an addiction later on in life. The questionnaire is based on over 2 decades of experience in the field of drug counselling and drug-free addiction treatment and rehabilitation.
"Currently we are recognized as the leader in drug-free addiction treatment; our centre has the highest participant success rate in the UK for this class of treatment," says Charles Jackson of addiction-helpline. co. uk, "However, prevention is more of an optimum than cure, so our objective in this case is to help tackle the causes of drug taking in the first place."
It is believed that individuals who struggle with drug addiction did not set out to destroy themselves, everyone and everything in their path. But rather, for many, drugs and alcohol seemed to be, at first, a means of averting emotional and/or physical pain by providing the user with a temporary and illusionary escape from life's realities, or as another means to cope with them. The painkilling effects of drugs or alcohol then become a solution to a person's discomfort. Inadvertently the drug or alcohol now becomes valuable because it helped them feel better.
This release is the main reason a person uses drugs or drinks a second or third time. It is just a matter of time before he becomes fully addicted and loses the ability to control his use. Addiction, then, results from excessive or continued use of physiologically habit-forming drugs or alcohol in an attempt to resolve the underlying symptoms of discomfort or unhappiness.
With this understanding, the new questionnaire created by experienced and professional counsellors of addiction-helpline. co. uk say that the online form will be able to "calculate a fairly accurate percentage of the likelihood of a child or teen later experimenting with drugs," based on the how the questions are answered. If necessary, according to the answers, a suggested solution is generated by the form as a preventive measure to be implemented by the parent.
The data collected will form part of an ongoing research into the increase of drug and alcohol abuse in the United Kingdom, and to be later submitted to The Strategic Health Authority and all of its 28 UK divisions.
This research is being headed by Charles Jackson of www. addiction-helpline. co. uk
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