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Common Secret Hiding Places of Drugs

Posted by Drug Free in Drug Abuse Prevention, Drug Addiction, Raising Healthy Kids on March 3rd, 2010

Drug paraphernalia can be difficult to detect. Nowadays, technology has successfully developed several ways to disguise these tools as just like everyday things. You must educate yourself with drug paraphernalia and how drugs look like to be sure that you don’t confuse drugs with harmless things and end up hurting your child because of wrong accusations.

As a parent, we cannot help but be on alert when there are indications that our child might be using abusive substances such as drugs and alcohol. It is the role of the parent to ensure our children’s safety and sometimes asking them up front just isn’t enough. That’s when we have to “get our hands dirty”.

hidden drugsYou walk in to your teen’s room and want do a search for substances. Where do you look first? You can start by checking his bags, his clothes, on his table, on and under his bed and on the floor. However, remember this: things aren’t always the way they seem. Be wary of everyday tools that seem out of place. Check his table, top of his cabinet, anywhere that things can be placed inconspicuously. You should expect that your teen will make it very hard for you to locate his secret stash. Go through the simplest things and check. There are known pipes for marijuana that is cleverly disguised as lipsticks and markers, so also be creative in your search.

Marijuana, crack and other drugs are usually hidden in places where our child would expect us never to be able to find. Look through shoes and their clothes cabinet. Marijuana is usually kept in small plastic bags which can be easily hidden away inside a shoe or in a suspicious hole in the house.

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Where the Drugs Can be Hidden Inside Your Homes

Posted by Drug Free in Drug Abuse Prevention, Drug Addiction, Prescription Drug Abuse on December 27th, 2009

Living with a drug addict is never a pleasant scenario for anyone. This can be the cause of a lot of sticky situations, conflicts, and misunderstandings. Unless you are also an addict yourself, you will not stand for this and make ways to get out of this mess. You fight back, you try to kick your partner out, or you leave.

drugs in your own medicine cabinet at homeThe solutions don’t always have to be that extreme, though. Sometimes, all it takes is to formulate preventive measures; anticipate the situation before it even begins. The first and most important thing that you need to do in this case is to keep your home clear of drugs. This will also ensure that your kids don’t find drugs to abuse right within the confines of home.

The drugs can be hidden in the most predictable of places. They can be hidden under the bed, in the underwear drawer, under the kitchen sink, or just inside the bags. Also factor in prescription drugs into the list of dangerous and potentially addicting drugs. Look at your medicine cabinet and see if you find anything missing. When your cough syrup, sleeping pills, or painkillers are gone as quickly as you replenish them, you can be certain that something is definitely amiss.

As the addiction gets worse, the hiding places become much less evident, and this is where the horrors of searching begin. Look everywhere: the drugs can be hidden in the seam of their pants, stuffed inside their underwear, inside their shoes, under the tree in your backyard, in the doghouse – the entire household now ultimately becomes a place to hide the stash. Never underestimate the logic, or lack thereof, of those addicted to drugs.

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