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WELCOME TO THE DRUG OF ABUSE
TESTING INFORMATION CENTER
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The people who can
do the most to help today’s kids keep off
drugs are today’s parents. They’re in the
best position to spot drug abuse and stop
it. All across the country, they are growing
numbers of success stories about parents
who make dedicated, persistent efforts to
keep their children drug-free – and it works.
Start Early.
Parents should begin discussing the dangers
of drug abuse when children are 5 years
old to help prevent abuse from ever happening.
Early support from parents is a key factor
in helping kids makes the right decisions.
By the time kids are in junior high school,
peer pressure may already favor using drugs.
The Four-L
Formula is LEARN, LOOK, LEAD, LOVE.
Once you have put the Four-L formula into
action, you have begun the right against
adolescent drug abuse.
LEARN all you can about
drugs and the symptoms of drug abuse.
LOOK for the signs of drugs
abuse.
LEAD others in living a
drug-free life.
LOVE your child unconditionally.
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Drugs
The United States Drug Enforcement Administration
recognizes five classes of controlled dangerous
drugs.
Narcotics are drugs derived from opium and synthetic
substitutes. Narcotics produce a state of euphoria
in the user and are dangerous because they are extremely
addictive physically and psychologically. Examples
of narcotics are heroin, codeine, and paregoric.
Depressants slow down or depress the central nervous
system and are prescribed as sedatives, tranquilizers,
and barbiturates to combat insomnia, calm jittery
nerves, or relieve anxiety. Alcohol is a depressant
drug.
Stimulants, often called “uppers,” are taken to
relieve fatigue, increase alertness, or depress
appetite. Examples of stimulants are cocaine, caffeine,
nicotine, and amphetamines. Synthetic amphetamines
are known as “designer drugs.”
Hallucinogens are natural and synthetic substances
that distort perception, and produce disoriented
or enhanced sensory experience of color, sound,
and motion. Examples are LSD, PCP (“angel dust”),
mescaline and certain mushrooms.
Cannabis, or marijuana, is the most frequently used
and abused illegal drug. Hashish and hashish oil
are other forms of cannabis. Marijuana was once
thought relatively harmless but is now recognized
as a dangerous “gateway drug” that opens the door
to use of other mood altering chemicals.
Symptoms
you can look for:
Behavioral
Mood Swings
Virtually all mood-altering drugs produce mood swings
from euphoria to depression. A user may be passive
and withdrawn one minute… and angry or hostile the
next.
Personally Changes
A normally energetic and out-going young person becomes
chronically depressed and uncommunicative.
Defensiveness
Blaming others or claming to be persecuted or victimized.
Overly Emotional
Inappropriately happy, depressed, hostile or angry.
Overly Self-Centered
Always has to have own way and will do anything to
have it.
Tendency to Manipulate
Making excuses for failure. Finding ways to have other
people handle their problems and bear the consequences
of their actions of behavior.
Strained Communication
Unwillingness or inability to discuss important issues
or concerns.
Withdrawal from Family Activities
Refusing to eat at family meals, participate in celebrations
or holidays, or make any adjustments to family life.
Change in Dress and Friends
Wears clothes, jewelry and hair styles imitating drug
culture standards. Spends time with suspicious friends
who refuse to meet parents, look them in the eye or
talk to them.
Lack of Self Discipline
Inability to follow rules, complete household chores
or school assignments, keep appointments or commitments.
Apathy
Little or no interest in meaningful activities like
clubs, hobbies, sports or other extra-curricular activities.
School problems
Excessive tardiness, absences, drops in grades, failure
to turn in assignments and take tests, and suspensions
or expulsion.
Anxious Behavior
Chronically jittery, jerky, uneven movements, fearfulness,
compulsiveness and talkativeness.
Physical Symptoms
- Change in appearance
- Fatigue
- Bloodshot eyes
- Consistently dilated pupils
- Frequent colds, sore throat, coughing
- Chronically inflamed nostrils, runny nose
- Dizzy spells, stumbling, shaky hands
- Consistent run-down condition
- Sudden gain or loss of weight
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Neither Enid Public Schools superintendent
nor the board president were surprised to
learn some students are protesting the school’s
new drug testing policy.
“I’m not a bit surprised,” Superintendent
Kem Keithly said, adding members of the drug
testing committee, made up of parents, students,
teachers and one administrator and board member,
took its time studying the issue and settled
on what they thought was the best model for
testing.
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story, CLICK
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