Tips to Identify an Addict :

• Your child is spending more time in the toilet and you occasionally come across pieces of fine glass, needle, syringe, empty bottle, match stick, cigarette bud/foil or wrapper of some unknown medicine.

• Your child is lazy, has difficulty in communicating, is oversleeping & has less interaction with the family members.

• Your child is losing interest in studies, is becoming irritable & prefers staying out of the house or sleeping at their friends house frequently.

• Child complains of repeated cough problems and body aches & insists on getting cough syrups of a particular brand which preferably contains codeine & his or her refusal to get examined by a doctor.

• Occasional missing of money from the wallet or purse or locker, loss of jewellery or costly items and irrational demand of money.

• Redness of eyes and slurring of speech.

• Detection of black sticky material from the pocket / purse / bedside of the person.

• Loss of appetite and weight.