Cover All Bases. Prevention efforts should be a continuum of interrelated and complementary activities including those at school, at home, and in the community. The importance of prevention and early intervention cannot be overemphasized. Substance abuse problems, if left unrecognized, will, in most cases, get worse. One does not have to be trained as a counselor to recognize signs and symptoms.
Intuition is a valuable tool.
Most people just need an established channel for referral and assessment and a sense of responsibility. The drug mystique. Surviving Your Adolescent's Adolescence. The role of the teacher with substance-abusing adolescents in secondary schools. Department of Health and Human Services.