Prevention is perhaps the most useful and difficult to utilize in a child, with so much 'drug' innuendo advertisedon television and radio, sometimes things like the 'D.A.R.E' program which is utilized in most public schools,are just not enough to dissuade the daily reinforcement our children receive that drugs are 'cool' and that using them poses 'minimal' risks. From actors, to musicians, to athletes, it isn't uncommon to sit down for one day and watch television, or listen to the radio and hear at least a handful of remarks poised to encourage the use of drugs, marijuana and alcohol more or less blatantly advertised as something 'most' adults partake in. Speaking and continually reinforcing the reason not to be using drugs is critical at an early age for all children, it is of the utmost importance that each parent realize to stress the most effective point of all. Taking any drugs, regardless for how brief a interval of time, will have permanent effects on the brain and body. While the adverse effects may not visible right away, it can be more or less gauged that each and every sometime is choosing to get 'high', they are detracting and damaging something. The body more or less conceives anything of that nature as foreign or akin to poison and will begin the process of filtration right away through the liver and kidneys. Drugs are more or less just another word for poison that gets you 'high.'

In the society we live in today it is not uncommon to hear of children from extremely good upbringings being too sheltered from the reality of drugs, that when introduced to them, they aren't able to make properly educated decisions as to just how harmful what they may be taking is. An example would be the son of a pastor, a child who likely would be entirely ignorant to about what drugs are and what they do to his body outside a religious standpoint, it's at that point that a child may not realize what he is doing will impact him to a greater degree than the 'religious' forgiveness he can seek right away. He may make the decision to take too much of something and the consequences might be fatal or disfiguring, if only because he received inappropriate education from his peers instead of actual facts. Results collected about this information, while obscure, do shed light that education is likely the best factor when attempting to curb drug-usage among children, it is empowering them with the truth to make the rational decision not to be using illicit substances.

Too often we come to hear of situations where parents aren't willing to take the time to rationalize why their child may be using drugs, instead of taking active precautions against it such as agreed drug testing, they send a child to a rehabilitation center too quickly. It can often end with foul results, with poor security and easy accessibility to drugs, these institutions frequently become a temporary reprieve for drug-users to simply do as they please for a few months before returning home to repeat the process again and again. It is one of the primary reasons that the rehabilitation system in the united states isn't simply to given to most offenders caught using drugs. It is very costly and it really only works when the subject is willing and wanting to make change for themselves, and not just to appease their parents for a short while. Here is another example for you to contemplate a moment, a child has been caught using narcotics by his parents for the second time in three months. The wrong solution to this problem would be to send him to a rehabilitation center where he can find new friends to educate him on the substances he's taken such a liking to. Contemplate this for a moment, instead of rehabilitation through a institution, an agreement is set out where 'Jeremy' as we will call the child is ready to undergo drug testing once weekly until it is determined that he isn't using anything he shouldn't be. Cost of drug testing procedure would be about thirty dollars a month and possibly a combined total of thirty to forty-five minutes spent each and every month to collect the necessary information to see if 'Jeremy' has been using drugs. Rehabilitation can cost upwards of thousands, drains months if not years of someone's life and the end result is often a situation that has deteriorated and become so bad it can never be fixed, all this because sitting down and coming to an agreement couldn't be reached or thought of, something as simple as agreeing to monthly drug testing through drug testing kits readily available, from rapid testing urine analysis, to hair drug test samples send to a laboratory to on the spot calculation with saliva. It is  parents who must talk and teach, they need to educate and bring actual facts to the table, life experiences and wisdom, all of these combine into the relationship needed to stop the usage of drugs. Once drugs are used, it isn't difficult to expend the three hundred dollars and a few hours each year to ensure its stopped.