Childhood lays the foundation for any person’s life, and, unfortunately, sometimes this foundation leads to sad events, and a person becomes a drug addict. This paper lists various programs and scientific approaches aimed at eliminating the factors of childhood that lead to drug addiction and alcoholism in adulthood. First, a literature review and statistics of programs are carried out that help identifies the most successful ones, including an integrated approach that includes self-regulation and parenting (Petrie et al., 2007). However, the researchers do not stop at this and go beyond the classification and designation of the problem and for a long time already. For example, scientists conducted a social experiment that led to a decrease in drug and alcohol use, identified important reasons for the lack of communication between parents and children, and focused on this problem (Werch et al., 1991). The result was positive in almost all more than five hundred experiments carried out.
However, it is not always possible to prevent problems in time, resulting in which, for example, children drop out of school. In this situation, it is imperative to choose the right approach for the child to deprive him of the opportunity to spoil his life further. To this end, twelve strategies have been developed that can protect adolescents from drugs and alcohol, and tobacco use, including primarily parental support and assistance with employment, education, and counseling later (Duckenfienld, 1990). In addition, interventions are discussed at the level of different ages of children, and similar programs are compared for effectiveness in different schools (Copeland et al., 2010). Programs like these involve the intervention of sure child care experts, but parents also have important influence and power over the child to prevent many ills (Califano, 2008). It is worth noting that we are talking about peaceful involvement in a teenager’s life and not stable intervention without respect for personal space, which can become an independent cause of alcohol, tobacco, and drug abuse.
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