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Guiding Children on use of Medicines(drugs)

I am specially inclined to explain the problem of a boy who was attaining the manhood,   only because he was very close relative of mine, who suffered this problem   and lost his youngest son at the age of   19 years. After having unsuccessful in studies he was humiliated by all family members( particularly one lady member of the family) at any given point of time One fine morning he promised everyone that he shall come to the level of studies as expected from everybody in the house.   Unfortunately, he developed stomach ache   at midnight. Thanks God the family doctor was instantly   available   who injected him a pain killer   known as Pethidine.   This was known as a pain killer   medicine . If repeated at number of times it becomes immune   to its effects. In simple words it stops function as pain killer. Repeated doses regularly taken   for prolonged period culminates the habit of addiction. That is what happened with...

Why children are addicted to sniffing ?

The habit of sniffing is old dated. In ancient times people were in habit of sniffing of   Eetter( इतर   ) ( a kind of perfume),    burning spices( अगरबती ) ,   clay, mud, leaves of organic plants,   even human bodies and all type of such inhaling was harmless.      It is a matter of surprise that all these solvents were used frequently even in religious ceremonies.   It is in our culture to perform religious ceremonies as per traditions adopted from ages. But it was difficult in ancient times to find out the reasons as to why an individual is feeling so high after sniffing a particular fume. Even the sticks of Aggerbati अगरबती and   Dhoop धूप also emanate such adore which affect the stimulant elements of human bodies. In older times even adults were seen sniffing something. It was a kind of powder a pinch of which was snuffled by an adult at frequent intervals It is called Snuff ( नसवार  ). Even today this ( नस...