Q: How to help drug abusers quit drugs?

ANS:

1.Encourage self-esteem and personality reconstruction.

2.Help establish a proper way to let off emotions.

3.Encourage quitting bad habits (such as smoking, drinking…).

4.Help them understand the right way to use drugs.

5.Help change their drug use environment, for example, moving or working in other places.

6.Help them stay away from friends who are drug addicts, for example, change phone number or cell phone number.

7.Help them establish a normal life style and arrange suitable leisure activities.

8.Help them plan their future direction and let them have the ability and confidence to face their future life.

9.Help them stay away from inappropriate locations, such as internet café, MTV, KTV, pool hall, and dance hall.

10.Support from family is the key to helping drug addicts be born again.

11.When a drug addict loses confidence in rehabilitation or does drugs again, family members should give him love and support instead of criticism and distrust to help him accept the possibility of medical intoxication.