How Do I Talk To My Kid About Drugs?

In Recovery

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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It can be hard to get a teenager to talk about anything, period. So when it comes to talking to teens about drugs and addiction? Yikes. River, a teacher, wants to know how to talk to her students about addiction, without stigmatizing people who have addictions. And Suzanne, who works in a treatment center and has two teenage sons of her own, is curious why no one talks about difficult emotions and coping mechanisms as addiction prevention. So this week, Nzinga tells us how she talked to her own kids, and she and Claire do another role play.

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0:36.8	okay zaire so what's the earliest you remember me talking to you about addiction?
0:43.7	About how old were you?
0:45.7	I was like 9 or 10, and I came in asking a question about something like medicine related,
0:53.1	and we ended up going into a tangent about all things medicine,
0:57.1	which included ill, sorry, addiction.
1:00.8	So, okay, now that you are, how old are you 14?
1:06.4	Yeah.
1:07.3	Now that you are 14 years old, what thoughts do you have about addiction?
1:14.0	It's much more serious than a lot of people tend to think, and it's harder to get out of
1:21.7	and break out of the cycle than a lot of people think. They kind of make light of it
1:27.7	when they're just scratching the tip of the iceberg.
1:31.2	Okay, that was pretty deep.
1:33.0	So if you were talking to adults
1:36.6	and you were going to give them a piece of advice
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