External, indirect signs of drug use can be divided into common, typical for all drugs or most of them and specific, specific to individual drugs. Indirect signs of drug use are relative, but they are easily caught by attentive parents, or people, who often meet each other.

With regard to common features, then they should bother attentive parents in the first place. Parents must really look at life and understand, what 10, 13, or even all 15 percent of high school students have experience of drug use.

The main symptom, which requires serious parenting, – this is a change in the child's habitual stereotype of behavior. Your teen's habits change, taste, health complaints appear. If for some time your child prefers to wear long sleeves, even in hot weather, swollen hands – these are serious symptoms. If there is a pronounced taste for sweets, which has not been observed to such an extent before, – this is also a symptom. Dry hair, dry mouth and nasal mucosa, constant lip licking, – all this should be alarming. Frequent "breaking" like the flu, which suddenly pass quickly, as if by themselves, - serious symptom.

Almost for a start, you can be guided by the general signs of taking common drugs., the appearance of which can lead to suspicion of their reception by a loved one. for example, extended speech, irritability, unwillingness to make eye contact, clumsiness in movements like alcoholic intoxication in the absence of the smell of fumes are already clear signs of drug intoxication.

1. Common signs of drug use:
• Pale skin, dilated or constricted pupils compared to those around them under the same lighting.

• As if, Numb lips, "Glass" look, closable, Falling eyelids.

• Frozen pose with a burning cigarette, a large column of ash on it, a change in smoking habits with a characteristic intake of air along with smoke. The appearance in the arsenal of a smoker, along with cigarettes, also a cigarette.

• Change in gait. Previously unnoticed predisposition to sweets and sugary foods, increased sugar intake

• Rolled-up pieces of paper appear on the table or in the trash can, torn corners of pages of newspapers and magazines. Pieces of food foil appear on the table, capsules with harmless liquid for injection, glass bubbles, the disappearance of tablespoons from the kitchen, the appearance of soot on tablespoons.

• The appearance of a personal first-aid kit with medicines, seemingly completely harmless.

• Showing indifference to family members and their concerns, to family life.

• Indifference to the simple joys of life, lack of interest in the environment, to life phenomena.

• Cooling for sauna use, Russian bath, by the pool.

• Unreasonable long, unexplained disappearances from home, in the afternoon, in the evening and at night. Chilling to old friends, comrades, companies, their interests.

• New friends, that do not appear at your home, but they only call, non-verbal, with gloomy voices, they are "encrypted" during telephone conversations.

• Conspiracy during telephone conversations, deceit, closeness, withdrawal.

• Depressive states, emptiness, often depressed mood.

• Mild speech disorders, lethargy, drowsiness, apathy, lack of appetite.

• Sleep disturbances. Daytime sleep shift, insomnia, sleep does not give rest, recuperation. Waking up in a bad mood feeling overwhelmed.

• Uneven behavior, inexplicable gaiety, unreasonable giggle, alternating with drowsiness, relaxation.

• The emergence of irascibility and conflict, not previously characteristic.

• Begging for money, resourcefulness and deceitful ingenuity at the same time.

• Memory impairment.

• Increased use of sleeping pills, even, seemingly harmless plant origin. Taking sleeping pills during the day.

• Inarticulate speech, lack of coordination in the absence of the smell of alcohol.

• Demonstration of insecurity and inability to emotionally adjust to the environment.

• Red eyelids, dehydration of the body, dry mucous membrane of the nose and mouth, strong urge to eat large quantities.

• Drowsy state, maximum constriction of the pupils.

• General weakness, insomnia, muscle pain, complaints about easy "breaking", like with the flu, in the absence of other signs of influenza.

• Prolonged depression, about two days, accompanied by insomnia.

• Obsessive states, "Troubles", loss of sense of the passage of time.

If there are even two or three of these signs, you must definitely resort to using tests., which are now completely available and widely advertised. In addition, modern drug tests provide results for a large number of drugs at once.. With their help, you can easily make sure that, that fears are in vain, or vice versa, substantiated.
Availability of such tests in the family, where there are teenage children and disadvantaged young people, will not be unnecessary waste.

2. Some external specific signs
Outward signs of drug use relate to, primarily, appearance and changes in behavior of a young person immediately after taking the drug and after the end of the dose. These signs may differ depending on the drug used.. External specific features are described in more detail here., characteristic of only the three most common types of drugs after taking them and after they stop acting.

These signs, sure, today every parent of a teenager or young man needs to know. But, not having sufficient grounds for suspicion of drug use, at first, may be, and you do not need to thoroughly delve into their features, but be guided by common signs, although you need to know them too.

Outward signs of opioid use:
but) After using opioids.
• Pale skin with a yellowish or greenish tinge.
• Sharp constriction of the pupils, no or slight reaction to light.
• Dry skin and mucous membranes.
• Itching of the skin of the face, especially the tip of the nose.
• Heightened mood, complacent.
• Disturbance of attention, memory.
• Speech is clear enough, movement disorders are not pronounced.
b) When opioid withdrawal.
• Tear- and drooling.
• Chills, "goose pimples", breathing quickened.
• Face pale earthy, sunken eyes, with dark circles around.
• Restlessness, fussiness.
• Nausea, lack of appetite.
• The mood is depressed, anxiety, irritability, insomnia.
• Inconsistent behavior, unpredictable.

Outward signs of using hemp derivatives:
but) After consumption.
• Facial redness, swelling of the eyelids, glitter of eyes.
• Dry mouth.
• Loss of coordination, gait, hand shake.
• Speech slows down, become fuzzy, oiled.
• Increased feeling of hunger.
• Inadequate gaiety, disinhibition, alternating with lethargy.
• Ends intoxication with heavy sleep, weakness apathy.
b) When the drug is canceled
• Lethargy, apathy, irritation, decreased mood, sleep disorder. The syndrome is not sufficiently pronounced in the first stages of use and develops as the dose and duration of use increase.

External signs of psychostimulant use:
but) After consumption.
• Pupils are constricted, decreased pupil response to light, glitter of eyes.
• Dry mouth, lips.
• Excitation, talkativeness, gusty repetitive movements, fussiness, elevated mood, reassessment of one's capabilities.
• Prolonged wakefulness, lack of sleep, increased activity.
b) With the abolition of psychostimulants.
• General lethargy, frailty, weakness, increased appetite.
• Depression, yearning, severe irritability, spitefulness.
• Daytime sleepiness, sleeplessness at night, lack of coordination.