How to understand drug addicted person
physical symptoms
Taking drugs causes great physical and behavioral changes in a person. If you notice those changes a little better, you can understand whether someone in your family is taking drugs or not.
(1) Changes in eating patterns and sleep patterns. Sudden weight gain or loss.
(2) If the eyes are red and the pupils appear larger or smaller than normal.
(3) Frequent nosebleeds. These symptoms usually occur with cocaine or other inhaled drugs.
(4) Deterioration in appearance and wear and care of clothing.
(5) If there are any wounds or cuts on the body that they do not know about or do not want to tell you how they got hurt.
(6) If there is any strange or unfamiliar smell on their face or body or clothes.
(7) Black spots are formed on the face of a drug addict.
behavioral changes
(1) Reluctance or loss of ability in sexual activity.
(2) Not wanting to go to class or office frequently or getting involved in any trouble in the institution.
(3) In case of inattention to work, loss of interest in personal hobbies or sports.
(4) If there are frequent complaints from his colleagues, teachers or friends.
(5) If the account of money kept at home does not match. Because it costs money to buy drugs. So usually your child may steal money, valuables, ornaments to pay for drugs.
(6) If the tendency to ask for money frequently in the name of studies increases.
(7) Changes in usage with new additions to the family. They are usually irritable during periods of drug addiction.
(8) Being alone most of the time or being privacy conscious. Keep the room door closed most of the time.
(9) If you feel annoyed for no reason.
(10) If you start eating extra sweets.
(11) If you see new friends instead of old friends.
(12) Finding things like powder in the house or bed.
(13) Often getting involved in fights or quarrels with someone or the other.
(14) Always use perfume or air freshener in the room and on the body.
(15) If you start using drops to reduce the redness of the eyes.
(16) If you get angry for no reason.
If someone in your family exhibits some of these physical and behavioral changes together, you will definitely know that he is a drug addict.
When to take drugs
(1) Pressured by friends, companionship and fear of being separated from them, many are forced to take drugs and eventually become addicted.
(2) Someone gets addicted to taking it once or twice just for fun. Many people take drugs to make themselves look smart
(3) Many people first take drugs out of curiosity, thinking that they will not become addicted but eventually they become addicted.
(4) If mentally depressed, many people become addicted to drugs due to various reasons such as unemployment, relationship breakdown, business loss, exam failure, family tension, etc.
(5) Some personality problems such as antisocial personality, developmental problems in childhood, some mental disorders.
(6) The first entry into the world of addiction begins with cigarettes, so although cigarettes seem harmless, it opens the main gate to enter the world of drugs, so smoking can also be one of the causes of drug addiction.
(7) At some point, the body and mind become so dependent on drugs that it is impossible to become drug-free without treatment.