People who use drugs harm not only themselves and their loved ones, but also those who, by the will of fate, were near, in particular, their neighbors. At the same time, they cause not only domestic troubles, but also often can be a real danger. Of course, such a neighborhood is unlikely to please anyone! So the inhabitants of the entrance turn, where addicts live, in various instances: the police, the Federal Drug Control Service, telephone hotlines, etc. If, as a result of such treatment, it is recognized that the neighbors really pose a danger to society, they will be immediately registered, taken under control, and may also be sent for compulsory treatment.
At first glance, everything seems to be quite simple. But what should neighbors do if there are children in the family of drug addicts ?! A girl turned to one of the popular forums. She did not ask questions, she urged people to be more attentive and sensitive to someone else's misfortune. And do not do what she did in due time. Her story is this. Next to her lived a woman with a small child of three or four years old. The girl often watched them through the window of her apartment.
By mother could see that she was consuming. And it was not only about alcohol, but also about drugs. People came to her, too, dubious, it seemed that the apartment in the neighborhood was being used as a stash. It was a pity the little girl. Slender, with failed eyes, she dutifully followed her mother, even at night. It was evident that the child does not eat up, sleeps little, does not observe basic hygiene. About toys and speech was not. The girl, looking at this, several times wanted to call the guardianship service, but somehow did not dare. And once a woman went out into the yard alone ... Later it turned out that while the mother was “high”, the child became ill, and he choked in his own vomit. “If I didn’t look out the window, but contact the police or the juvenile inspection, or somewhere else, I could save the baby’s life!” The girl says.
My parents are drug addicts
Doctors generally wonder how drug addicts manage to give birth to children. Drug use inevitably leads a woman to infertility, and in men develops impotence. However, given the fact that most drug addicts have an erratic sex life, they still have offspring. And, unfortunately, the child born immediately becomes unnecessary to the parents. They are not interested in the conditions in which the child has to grow up; they do not pay attention to their development and health. Even when pregnant, drug addicts do not stop smoking weed, inject or sniff, being convinced that this will not harm the child. In fact, she just doesn't care.
Children, whose parents suffer from drug addiction, in most cases have not only physical developmental deficiencies, but also weakened immunity, as well as mental development problems. They naturally do not receive the attention that they simply need from the very first day they are born. Living conditions are also far from even normal, not to mention good. It is highly likely that children who grew up in such an atmosphere will begin to use drugs themselves at a more conscious age.
Is there a future for children born to drug addicts?
Unfortunately, children of drug addicts almost always are limited in development. Each case, of course, is individual, but has its own characteristics. Often such children, only when they are born, go to orphanages, because their parents simply do not need them. Perhaps in the orphanage they will feel better in everyday life, however, they probably will not recognize true maternal love and care, because they are unlikely to want to adopt a child whose parents are drug addicts. And what are these kids to blame?
If drug addicted parents do not leave the child in the hospital, his life will turn into hell. And this is no exaggeration! They will not receive proper care, care, attention. Their mental abilities will remain almost undeveloped. Not to mention the living conditions of their existence. Existence, not life.
I must say that if a child was born in a family where drugs are used, he subsequently himself has every chance of becoming an addict. In particular, the risk is great if the parents are "sitting" on heroin. Even without taking drugs, such children may experience syndromes that are very reminiscent of. This syndrome can be eliminated only with a dose, no matter how scary it sounds. And even if such a congenital dependence was expressed rather weakly in the baby, then life in such an atmosphere would not lead him to anything good.
Another path that is often taken is crime. Moreover, in most cases, the sorrow parents themselves are forced to steal or prostitute children. They no longer have anything human left, and in order to get the next dose, they are ready for anything, even to sell their own child in pornographic slavery.
But even if the parents don’t do this, the child sometimes has no choice but to steal, because he just wants to eat. And having stolen just a pie, he can end up in a juvenile colony. And this is another sad version of the development of events.
But really, children born to drug addicts have no chance for a normal life ?! Can they never become full members of society, and their tragic fate is a retribution for the thoughtlessness of mom and dad? Is there really no one to help them get out of this mud?
How to help a child whose parents use drugs?
If you know what's next to you live children whose parents use drugs, do not remain indifferent. Do not pass by such families, hiding behind their own problems and concerns.
Alarms for the alarm may be enough. If you often find signs of drug use in a neighboring apartment - the smell of smoking mixtures, used syringes, inappropriate behavior of its residents, there can be no doubt. The child needs help. In such families, parents do not fulfill their parental functions, as a result of which the child automatically falls into the “risk group”.
In this case, you must immediately contact the local guardianship authorities, the guardianship inspector, as well as the juvenile inspection in your area, and write a statement. The family will immediately be put in control, which may determine the future fate of the children. If it is revealed that the conditions in the family for the normal development and existence of the child are inappropriate, the parents will be deprived of parental rights, and the child will be transferred to the orphanage, where they can ensure proper care and upbringing.
If the child is at an age when he can be responsible for his actions, he can independently write a statement to the guardianship authorities and ask him to be identified in a social shelter for those children who find themselves in difficult life situations. There he will wait for a decision on how his future fate will turn out.
The shelter and the orphanage are also not bright prospects. But children are often happy about the opportunity to get there, because living with parents as drug addicts is simply unbearable.
There is one more scenario. Saving a child from addict parentsYou can save the whole family.
This story happened in St. Petersburg. A woman who wanted to stay incognito wrote on the official website of the Office of the Commissioner for Children's Rights, using the "Online Consultation" function. She asked for help for a child who is in a family of active drug addicts.
She pointed out that the baby lives in poor conditions, does not receive proper attention and education, eats little. According to the woman, the mother of the child may engage in prostitution. It is possible that the child is involved in this activity. All neighbors are aware of the situation, but are silent. Apparently, they’re afraid of something ...
The woman was not a neighbor of the ill-fated family, but, seeing the reaction from experts, she found out her address. It turned out that complaints about the family had already been received by the guardianship authorities, but they could not find anyone in the apartment. And this time the door was locked, no one answered the call. However, upon entering the porch, the staff managed to examine the silhouette of a girl standing near the window. Thanks to the professionalism of the staff, the girl managed to persuade to go down.
As it turned out, Nika, and that was the name of the girl,. But a year has passed since she stopped using drugs. The girl also explained that, by coincidence, she was left without her own housing, and was forced to live with her husband, an active drug addict, on “bird rights”. A child is not accepted into the garden, as the family is registered in another district. She managed to cope with addiction only because of her love for her daughter. This feeling holds her now in this ill-fated apartment, where drug trafficking has practically formed. She simply has nowhere to go.
When asked why she did not contact the relevant authorities, Nika replied that she was afraid that they would not understand and take the child away. She could not imagine that someone could provide her real help and support. Moreover, given its dubious past.
Sorry for the multi-letter, but in a nutshell it will be incomprehensible. I know the situation for a long time and very well, with a bunch of details on each side.
The story is this - one of my very old acquaintances, she has a son an addict, he is over thirty, not a boy. Everything went very far, the son took her things from the apartment, his belongings, doesn’t bring money, doesn’t want to work, well, she’s already tired of supporting and feeding him, and so on. She even gave money for cigarettes and travel, when he treated her with devices for work "moms, give 100 rubles for the road, you need to get to work." There was an overdose from a year ago, once pumped out in a hospital.
My acquaintance seemed to have tried the traditional "compulsory" treatment - in the regional drug dispensary - unsuccessfully, found support clubs - also, in general, without much success. Found some time ago some rehabilitation centers based on religion, discipline and physical labor. But the comrade is completely not religious, and having felt that he seems to be letting go, he escapes from there, but they will not be kept there forcibly. Yes, and he is an unbeliever, by and large. In general, he escaped from several such centers, a matter of time.
This acquaintance, however, believes in these centers, and for the last few years he has been living in the regime of "send to the center - everything is fine - hello, they didn’t wait, but I came here" - and then by induction.
Once again, when they called me for support and sympathy, I thought and said that he was not the only one to blame for the situation. He uses it, and then it hysteria, sometimes it pities and licks it - there is no middle and warm kindred relationship. So I said that until he starts emotionally investing in their relationships and in her, there will be no sense in it, and all these centers are not a panacea, to say the least. Simply, it is pumping money out of relatives and the slave labor of those who are there.
She said that a friend was stuck emotionally in childhood, the main problem is that he needs attention, and the more she drives him out of the house, the more he will return there, because after her tantrums they will lick everyone, buy clothes and, in general, they will forgive once again, until the next jamb, well, and further by induction.
Why does everything come from childhood - because my son has big claims to his mother on the subject of "I do not like me, nobody needs me" - a typical, classic situation from "people who play games." Objectively - in childhood, he was fed-dressed-shod, but the emotional side in the family was always lame. Although it was said that "all the best for children", in reality it was a couple of trips to museums, and that's all - the family did nothing, they lived as neighbors, not particularly connected. it was always built, but when he tried to somehow live independently, it always ended up with everything being decided for him in the way that would be convenient for his mother.
She told all this to a friend, described everything and advised to spend time with him, to do something together - in general, to adjust the emotional component, and there the situation will even out, she said that by stuffing him in the reb centers, she simply relieves herself of responsibility and wants someone else to do it. and here no one but her will help. She advised me to deal with him, fill his time, so that he did not have time for boredom and have nothing to do, teach him to find in life something other than drugs, since he simply does not know how to occupy himself.
I fully understand her, she is exhausted, tired and in general it is terrible when such a situation occurs. But all these reb centers and putting him out of the house is a way to nowhere, in fact, he is returning anyway, well, it’s clear where he still has to go ..
And it never occurred to her to look at the situation with his eyes, and now she does not want to do this.
But as a result of the conversation, she was offended and did not understand my point of view. In vain I told her this, I had to regret, agree and assent "oh, that's a freak, how much more can you endure"?
Today, the world is celebrating the day of the fight against drug addiction. Many meetings, actions, meetings will be held, smart people will share their methods of dealing with terrible evil. The whole world is great, it is necessary. But everything starts at home. And faced with a terrible truth, each parent decides for himself how he will fight and whether he will fight at all. This will not be the text of the series “if trouble came into the house”. And there will be no advice on how to determine that your child is using drugs. Personal impressions of communicating with the mothers and fathers of such children, an attempt to classify no scientific generalization.
Bridge man
Upon learning that a son or daughter is using drugs, parents understand that their previous life has come to an end. She will never be again: all hopes, dreams, habits remained on the other side, for which there is no return. An urgent need to build a new life in a new place - strange, incomprehensible, frightening, taking on a terrifying burden of responsibility. You can not stop, relax and think that everything will work out. Now all life is subordinated to one goal, all life is a struggle. “I feel like a bridge,” one such dad told me. “I was thrown across a deep abyss, people are walking along me, cars are driving, and if I stop holding this burden, everything will fall down.” Otherwise impossible. Whatever method of struggle the parent chooses without taking this internal position of the “bridge”, he is unlikely to be able to do anything.
Do it yourself
There are parents who themselves buy drugs for children. What for?! The reasons are different. In order not to put the child at risk, to buy quality goods (I saw a father who made friends with his son’s dealer), to personally get him out of painful withdrawal ... Sometimes this is also a way to turn a blind eye to the problem. One mother acquired coaxil for her daughter. This long regarded as the most harmless antidepressant was indeed used at one time to relieve psychological withdrawal pain. Today, tablets themselves are used as a drug - either in large doses, or simply through a vein in a crushed form (this inevitably causes gangrene). Mom bought her daughter several packs a day - as much as needed to achieve the effect, and received prescriptions from some kind doctor for money. In response to the story about the properties of the "miracle drug", which is extremely destructive and quickly acting on the body - fierce silence.
Everyone should know this. But not me
By the way, as far as the properties of drugs and other educational program, people often faced with trouble shy away from this knowledge, like the plague. You ask the simplest question, you get an agitated nervous laugh: “but I don’t know anything about it!” But this information is not only widely available, it is necessary for everyone and everyone - just like the basic rules of fire safety or first aid. Superstitious fear often prevents enriching them: what if they come in handy? Better not to stir up, you see, trouble and pass by. In the case of drugs, parents are also afraid of recognition, they are afraid to find threatening signs in their son or daughter that he is “using”. But when he was little, they were not afraid to listen to his breathing, to feel his forehead, to study the contents of diapers and pots - how else to recognize that something is wrong with the little man? When it was bad, he could only cry, could not explain what was wrong with him. Now it can - but does not wish. So, you need to look closely again, listen and sniff - knowing at the same time what symptoms you are looking for. It is much worse to see them and not be aware of this.
Give everything
Other parents put everything to the fight. They work in three shifts, without holidays and weekends, sell cars and apartments, forget about themselves, arranging their child after each breakdown in expensive clinics and rehab centers, solving problems with the law and giving out debts. The life of such a family flows in a sinusoid, and the child quietly sways on these waves, knowing that he will always painlessly come out of breaking, that mother will save, forgive, and selling everything, will never encroach on his own car. Even if he breaks it up in a drug dope (an example from life), he buys a new one, selling another heirloom. This is not to say that these parents are completely wrong: care and regret, of course, is necessary. But the sine wave should not be infinite. Anyway, it will someday end when the tragedy happens. Wise parents put conditions for the addict: I will help you once, I will help another, but on the third you will get out yourself.
"We"
You will recognize other mothers of chemically dependent children right away - by one single short word: “we”. We will not condemn and delve into the reasons: perhaps the roots of the “bad habit” lurk in this hyper-custody, perhaps not. The main thing is that today this mother refuses for a long time to the great offspring of the right to independent existence, living, in fact, in dreams, in her own made-up world. “We broke”, “we were treated”, “we do not inject for the second month” ... The child sits nearby silently and nods when the role requires it. The subtext of this “we”: “everything is under control”, “I decide everything and do everything as it should.” In fact, everything has long gone out of control, but she does not want to see this. So the child "drives" the car on the carousel, recklessly twisting the props steering wheel. The child is not pricked, breaks down and is treated, but not the mother. He makes decisions, he lies or tries to tell the truth, he fights or decided to go down without resistance. A terrible carousel has its own mechanism and its own carousel. This does not mean that there is no hope and that it is impossible to influence anything. You can fight and change the situation, but first you need to release the toy steering wheel from your hands, step back and start talking about a dependent close person in the third person.
The game "yes, but"
It was described by Eric Burn in the psychological bestseller "Games that people play." From time to time, we all play yes, but. The bottom line: complaining about a problem, reject all proposed ways to solve it under specious pretexts. The horror of the game is that it has no end, because the person is "yes, but" inexhaustible to fiction. His task, which he himself does not realize, is to turn his back on the problem, relieving himself of responsibility. In addict families, “yes, but” is a deadly game. If a loved one develops cancer, rarely will anyone dare to argue with the need for hospitals, operations, and long courses of treatment. The life of the whole family is changing, it is hard, but it is a fact that cannot be denied. Addiction is no less dangerous ailment, but here the search for loopholes begins. A consultant advising to seek medical help or send a patient to a rehabilitation center is perceived, if not as an enemy, then as an adversary in the game. To be treated ?! But they will register, and the boy needs to go to college, join the army, take exams for rights, get permission to carry arms and marry an unsuspecting girl. To leave ?! But there is study, work, family, brilliant prospects, repairs, a summer residence, a dog, an upcoming business trip abroad, the main role, shooting competition, etc. etc. - the list has no end. Meanwhile, the choice is very simple and does not need any arguments. No matter how powerful they may seem, they do not affect the position of the scales. On one is life, on the other is death. Everything is simple.
Laws of denial
It is possible to deny the obvious and frightening in different ways. “You don’t understand anything,” other parents will say in response to the proposed ways of resisting trouble, “my son is not some kind of drug addict!” He is talented, successful, has a fine mental organization. "
“You don't know anything,” others will say. - It's not his fault. All evil is from the daughter-in-law. Leaving her - there will be no heroin, so no doctors are needed either. ” By the way, it is often this daughter-in-law who fights one-on-one with family misfortune. After all, it was she who saw the situation from the inside, and not the tinted facade, which the addict considers possible to present to parents. Cracks are visible behind a thin layer of stucco: the building is about to fall apart at the seams. But looking at them and seeing how deep they are is too painful and scary. The wife finds syringes and hides the money, the wife runs away with the children at night, the wife tries to reason, convince and pity, the wife calls an ambulance and trembles with fear when her husband is away from home for a long time. Parents, talking to their son on the phone, hear him “everything is in order” and tend to believe this soothing lie more than the daughter-in-law’s stories that do not fit into her head. Probably, she invented everything, stipulates the boy, thickens the colors ...
No longer son
“While you are on heroine, you are a stranger to us,” said the mother and wife of a friend of mine. The wife took the child and left for a rented apartment, without giving the address, the mother stopped answering the phone.
Another acquaintance drove the addict daughter out of the house (in winter). She had three days to admonish: "cold, hungry, scary." I called dad, asked to go home, said she agreed to treatment, agreed to temporarily leave Moscow, agreed to everything, just to quit. Now everything is fine, although the measure, of course, is too risky - it could turn out differently.
The acquaintance No. 1 was tampering with freedom for several months. At first he was happy, but after some time he also felt fear. He needed neither money nor shelter, but loneliness was unbearable. He is doing well now too. But this story, too, could have a completely different end.
Not everyone will find the strength to turn away from a loved one who is in trouble. This step can be both very effective and disastrous. It’s good when the parents go to him, having carefully considered all the consequences and secretly still watching their lost child, to come to the rescue in case of trouble. Sometimes they turn away simply from unbearable fatigue, from the inability to endure hourly pain and fear.
Deathly calm
I have often attended the funeral of drug addicts. At such a funeral there are no tears and tantrums. It can be very, very quiet on them, and a person burying his child looks indifferent: even intonations, clear actions, neatly measured words. By this icy calm, you can determine if you do not know that the young man lying in the coffin died of drugs. What is the matter with them ?! Are they numb with grief, are themselves influenced by some soothing strong substances?
They told me - she herself was not a witness - such a story. The woman decided to call her friend, who recently lost her daughter from an overdose. I was terribly worried, but she went to the phone, not sobbing, only she could not speak too much, as she was sitting ... in a hairdressing salon. A friend was indignant: “But how so ?! The body has not cooled yet, and you ... "-" And you know what it is to bury your child every day? The orphaned mother asked. “I've been doing this for the last three years.” She was dying every day. And now, when this happened, it’s easier for me. ”
“I hate you!” - these are the last words my son told me. Today I will tell the whole story of his hatred and my tormented love. I know every word will be given with unbearable pain, but I will do it. In order to perhaps someone was able to stop his child.
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For several months now my son has been dead. Overdose. A common thing for an addict. In the last days of his short life, in the heat of despair, I sometimes screamed that I wished him dead. Now I can’t forgive myself for these words. Sleepless nights, looking into the darkness, I think for the millionth time: “Why did this happen to us? With him, with me, with his father, with our whole family? ” Good, friendly, well-off. I know my husband asks himself the same questions and suffers as well. Lord, what have we done wrong? What?
A lump comes up to the throat, and tears roll down onto the pillow. I remember how cute he was in childhood, just an angel. He fell asleep, hugging his arms and trustingly buried his nose in my shoulder. How he tore flowers at all flower beds that he caught sight of and carried me a present - so happy! He was always smart: both in kindergarten and at school, he studied well. My husband and I were proud of him, guarded us from problems and made plans for a great future. Why not? He’s a serious boy, he has good friends, all from decent families. I then went to bed calmly, confident that my boy was not wobbling along the doorways with his punks.
Was I blind? Why didn't you notice something was wrong? Then, many years later, the son will tell that he started smoking marijuana at 16 and washed it down with wine. I got a “refined” buzz, and I slept and made plans for the future ...
The first alarm bell rang when a close friend of his son, an advanced child from a teacher's family, went into the army. Of course, he sent a letter from there. I accidentally stumbled upon him and could not restrain myself, I read: mine also had to serve and I wanted to know the truth about army life, hoped to find it in that letter. And she found: ... “Everything is fine with me. Come on, weed, weed is also available. ” Then everything broke off. Probably, then it was already necessary to make a scandal to heaven and instead send the army to send his son for treatment, forgetting about shame and the good name of the family. I would have done so if I had known how the "children's fun" would end. And then I could not think how terrible this evil is. Of course, they had a preventive conversation with his son, and soon he left to serve. She was sure: there he would gain his mind, grow up. Father made every effort to serve in good conditions. And again we made a mistake. In “good conditions” the son easily found “crap” and smoked, not even suspecting that step by step he was being drawn into a quagmire. While he served, we began to build a house: he would return — he would marry, his grandchildren would go. Everything should be like people’s.
But our son did not need all this. Once I saw injections on his hands ... Never again, not a single minute did I live calmly. I asked my adult child, cried, begged on my knees to change my mind, explained that this road is to the abyss. He said: “Mamusik, don’t worry, the situation is under control. If I want, I’ll give up tomorrow ... ” Sometimes he threw, but it was enough for him only at first for several months, then weeks, days. He fought off drugs for alcohol. Constantly stuck in some stories, did not get out of the police, fought with me, with my father. There was no trace of the good name of our family: he mixed it with mud.
According to our son, we are to blame for everything: “You could not entice me, you did not open a case for me, I have nothing to do ...” These accusations, mixed with a select obscene language, could not be counted. Life has turned into hell. My boy, whom I cherished and carried in my arms, the boy who once loved me so much, would surely have killed me long ago if it had not been for the intercession of my husband. His son needed money all the time, and he was ready to get it at any cost. Yes, sometimes there were gaps - he tried to strike up, found a job. Once we sent him away from the city, from drug addicts in the hope that this would help get rid of the addiction. He did not want to be treated. One and the same answer to our persuasion: “Look at this and that and that. Only money is wasted, it’s all useless. ” His departure was also useless. There, in a distant big city, he made good money. He had enough money, and he tried heroin. Then, returning home, I could not afford such a “pleasure”, so I poisoned myself with crazy doses of some kind of brew. Three times he was dragged from the other world, but he came out of intensive care and again pricked. Cooked all this muck no longer embarrassed. I tried to interfere, he screamed that he hated me, that I was a creature, not a mother, that I couldn’t wait until he died.
So it was on his last day. First he demanded money from me (he gave the last few hundred rubles, all the components of this terrible drug cost so much), then he prepared poison for himself in the kitchen, the fire blazed to the ceiling, leaving black stains. I screamed, shook him, then he went into the bathroom and started injecting a drug that had recently been injected into the groin - I simply could not find other veins: they were all punctured. His son writhed, then suddenly fell asleep, and a syringe with a black brew stuck in his vein. Then he rose sharply and again administered the dose. How scary to see all this, to understand that your child has become a monster, that he no longer needs anything in his life, except for a syringe with “dope”, and you can’t change anything. No one can. But my husband and I tried to take this syringe away, and he called us the last words, pulled himself out, ran away and still got the treasured buzz.
... at night he died. Lonely. I was not around. Now it seems to me that he was consciously seeking death, he hated himself. He wanted to stop, to be a normal person, but could not.
And how many such tragedies are around, how many families suffer, suffocating from grief. And in the country, by and large, nothing is being done to put an end to all this. I will never forget how I went to the organs for help. They sympathized with me, scolded that she had raised her son poorly, and offered to put him in prison. I don’t know, maybe it really brought up badly. Too loved, too sorry. Now I don’t know anything. But I see how drug addiction and violence are often instilled through the media. It's scary to turn on the TV. Why is there a TV! Poppy, from which artisanal opium is made, is freely sold in stores. Everyone knows about it, but they do nothing. Merchants get richer, and our children die. Hemp is everywhere a wall, and the hands of young people reach for it. Who will stop?
So another sleepless night of mine ends. I hope to fall asleep at least a little, pray that I dreamed of my son. But not the way I knew him in recent years - with a face twisted with hatred, but very small, smiling and gentle. At least in a dream for a second, believe that everything can still be changed ...
MOTHER. (Address as amended.)
Parents of drug addicts and children are one of the worst problems of modern society. Drug addiction is a disaster in itself. But when it concerns the younger generation, it is doubly dangerous. In such cases, a person’s personal tragedy develops into a threat to the entire society. Parents who are drug addicts will not only not be able to provide their children with a decent future, but they will also seriously endanger their health and normal physiological development.
Why are drugs dangerous for adults and children?
The danger of LSD, cocaine, heroin, spice and other psychotropic substances is known to everyone. They cause irreparable damage to the body, kill the nervous system, destroy the personality. In a word, they turn a person into an unhappy suffering animal. You can return to normal life, for example, by conducting a general detoxification from drugs and taking a rehabilitation course in a good medical center. But even in this case there is no guarantee that health will be as good as before.
With children born to drug addicts, the situation is even more complicated. Statistics say that 80 to 85% of these babies have complex pathologies, genetic mutations, and mental disorders. In addition, they are already born with a weakened immune system.
When parents are drug addicts, children often suffer from infectious and viral diseases. They have developmental delays, memory problems, lethargy.
Pregnancy and addiction
Psychotropic substances ruin not only the psyche, but also the human reproductive system. Therefore, infertility is a common disease among drug addicts. But if a woman who uses drugs is still pregnant, the fetus is exposed to many dangers. Firstly, there is a real threat of miscarriage or premature birth. Secondly, the embryo is initially formed with irregularities. Thirdly, it has a significant developmental delay.
Even the soft drugs that the mother uses during pregnancy are extremely dangerous for the future baby, who will suffer from dystrophy, deafness, impaired vision, diseases of the musculoskeletal system.
Most “amphetamine children” tend to have a mental disability. And “cocaine” are born with problems of the genitourinary system, mutations and deformities (for example, a cleft palate). In toxicomaniacal mothers, babies are born with diseases of the cardiovascular system, respiratory and digestive disorders.
Parents of drug addicts and children: social aspect
Health problems, all kinds of pathologies are not the only threat to which children of drug addicts are exposed. No less dangerous are the social consequences of this phenomenon.
It is good if the future parents, having learned about the addition, decide to "tie up". They undergo rehabilitation from drug addiction and begin a new, healthy life. Then the baby will be brought up in comfortable conditions, feel the care and receive the necessary help.
But if the parents of drug addicts do not want to give up bad habits, their children will grow "like flowers in the field." They will certainly be deprived of attention, affection and even basic medical procedures. In addition, constantly seeing a bad example and watching the elders, they are likely to overcome their habits in the future. If we again turn to statistics, we can say that over 70% of children who grew up in such an environment, over time, begin to consume psychotropic substances.
Without often receiving either an education or a specialty, they are deprived of the opportunity to earn money, which leads to other harmful consequences - theft and crime.
With all the hopelessness, however, there are bright moments: medicine is developing rapidly now and more and more reliable methods of drug addiction treatment are appearing. If desired, a person can always get qualified help and return to normal life for himself and his children.
