How to Tell If Your Kids are Using Drugs

"How to Tell if Your Kids are Using Drugs" is a guide that aims to provide parents with the information that they need for identifying, understanding and dealing with this growing problem right from the outset. It explains how to read the many warning signs that can indicate drug and alcohol use. By recognizing these "red flags", parents take the first difficult - but crucial - step in solving the problem. Following a complete introduction to today's drug scene, the authors - a former narcotics officer and a writer - break down the progression of substance abuse into four recognizable stages. From the first dabblings with drugs to the final, debilitating stages of addiction, the book explains exactly what is going on - which drugs are used, how they are used, what sort of behaviour patterns and feelings accompany each type and stage of drug use. And it explores the many reasons that kids start using drugs, as well as how a parent's denial of the problem greatly contributes to it.