Primary Schoolers Drugs And Alcohol

Primary Schoolers Drugs And Alcohol

• What is a drug?
• A drug is a chemical substance which alters the way the body works.
• The most common classes of drugs we can give ourselves are:
  • cold medicines like decongestants, expectorants and cough suppressants
  • allergy relievers like antihistamines
  • pain relievers like analgesics
  • mood altering drugs such as stimulants, tranquillisers or relaxants, sedatives or depressants, narcotics and hallucinogens.
• Nearly all children will be offered drugs.
• Children need to know about drugs before they come into contact with them.
• They need to know:
  • what drugs are
  • what drugs do to the body
  • how to say no to drugs.
• Most children will be tempted by their friends to try drugs.
• Drugs are most easily bought in places where there is a demand for them.
• Remember that there are drugs, like cigarettes and alcohol, in most homes. Children may take your cigarettes, alcohol and medicines.
• They may try other things which may give them a 'high' like glue, lighter fluids, petrol and propellants in hair spray.
• Children and young people may try drugs for many reasons:
  • to find out what it is like
  • to be like their friends
  • for fun
  • for something to do
  • for attention
  • because they are ignorant of the effects caused
  • because people they love and respect do.
  • because they like the feeling.
• Children learn their values and attitudes from you. They learn by what you do as well as what you say.
• Drug abuse is usually a problem for people who feel insecure, who are under a lot of stress, who are unable to accept themselves as they are or who feel unloved.

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