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Short course (2 hour duration) with a presentation focused around three axes:

  • Drugs are everywhere. No family is safe from it. Each part must know the effects and consequences of psychotropic drugs.
  • The principle drugs under a scientific lens: their appearance, their effects.
  • An important part of this course focuses on cannabis, a drug which ensnares adolescents, a gate way to drugs and which leads to drug addiction.

What to do if your child uses? There is no miracle answer, our experience since 1999 allows us to help families and young people confronted by this problem.

If you are interested in taking a course, send us an email at : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 


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Educate your children

Quiz

Is current cannabis an average of 10 times more dosed than in 1968 ?

  • Yes
  • No

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In 1968, it contained from 0,6 to 6% of THC – TetraHydroCannabinol - principal active substance. In recent years through genetic modifications, hybrids and greenhouse cultures, it can contain up to 35% of THC. Nowadays, cannabis consumed by teenagers does not have anything in common with what their parents knew. For more information about cannabis see “Technical Information” section.

Does alcohol mixed with cannabis have harmful effects?

  • Yes
  • No

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 When you consume alcohol and cannabis simultaneously, these products mutually increase their effects. The current practice is to use alcohol and cannabis at the same time. Many young people nowadays use this common method to try to get “stoned”.

Can a psychotropic drug lead to ill being, depression, suicide?

  • Yes
  • No

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Any psychotropic drug, be it legal - anxiolytic, tranquillizer, benzodiazepine, neuroleptic - or illegal - street drugs - leads to ill-being, depression and to suicide. See table with side effects of psychotropic drugs – Technical Information/Classification .

Voir le tableau des effets secondaires des drogues psychotropes (Fiches  / Classification)

Are there pills to stop drugs ?

  • Yes
  • No

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Drugs are not a disease. The best way to stop them is not to take any. Heroin addicts who achieved withdraw admit that complete abstinence is the only solution. They say it themselves : it is more difficult to withdraw from Subutex (substitution drugs) than from heroin…

Are our physicians concerned by drug addiction ?

  • Yes
  • No

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Physicians are the first witnesses of drug addiction (See: News or Did you know sections)