Your Medicine Cabinet & Your Child

Have You Become a Drug Dealer by Default?
 

One of the more alarming statistics in the United Kingdom and in many other countries the world over is the number of young children oftentimes very young children who are becoming involved with and who are using drugs. Of course, when a parent hears about the growing prevalence of drug use amongst children children these same parents imagine these youngsters getting ahold of drugs through other children, including older children, and from evil drug dealers that hang out ’round school play yards.
 

While these certainly are situations through which children get drugs, the stark and horrible reality of drug use and children in the 21st century is that many, many youngsters actually are getting the drugs they use from their parents’ own medicine cabinets at home. In short, if you have children, you run the risk of literally although unwittingly becoming a drug supplies to them.
 

In order to ensure (as best as any parent can) that your children are less likely to obtain medications from your own home there are some steps that you need to keep mind. First and foremost you must frustrate the ability of your children in being able to get their hands on any prescription medications that you have in your home. If you are a responsible parent, you lock away guns that you might have in your home. You need to understand that prescription medications can be lethal as well. Therefore, you really do need to keep prescription medications under lock and key.
 

Moreover, you need to keep track of the prescription meds that are in your home. You need to know how many doses are contained in a particular prescription and if some turn up missing you need to take action immediately.
 

As an aside, you also need to do your best to keep the lines of communication open between you and your children. Of course, this can be the challenge of a lifetime communicating with kids. But, you really must make the very best effort to keep the lines up and running.
 

In summary, you need to understand the risk that is presented by prescription medications. And, you need to take any all steps that are available to you to put up a wall between your children and the medications that you must keep in your home. In the end, the health and indeed the lives of your children depend upon your proactivity.