Social workers in Singapore reported that substance abusers ‘ families and loved ones even experience indirect harm because they have to deal with the mental and social effects.
Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam, who made the remarks at the ceremony honoring drug abusers on Remembrance Day, on Friday ( May 17 ), emphasized that there is no end to drug abuse.
Ms Kristine Lam, main social worker and mind of youth services at Care Corner, shared about the case of a 20- year- ancient she was counseling.
As the child slipped into medicines, his parents, who also had a drug habit, was filled with shame and grief. He claimed that normalizing his boy’s perception of medication was his problem.
” He blamed himself for not being able to catch it first enough”, said Ms Lam, who has worked in the market for 12 times.
When he lost his temper when the urge struck, his mother likewise experienced emotional abuse, and she had to be very cautious about what to say or do. Yet the possibility of giving him an income had to be carefully considered because he could use it for additional drugs.
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His younger brother felt neglected at home in the middle of everything because his parents were constantly focusing on his legal and criminal concerns or trying to locate him and bring him home.
” The younger sibling felt like,’ First, I’m younger but then nobody takes care of me. Then second, I still need to cope with all these challenges ‘”, shared Ms Lam.
He thought about whether he should just keep the household and left home, she said.
But there is all this effect that we need to deal with and cope with within a household itself, she said.
Another group of victims were the teen’s friends, who were very shocked upon learning of his condition.
Before meeting the boy, Ms. Lam claimed that she had to talk with them to assist them in understanding what was happening.
The child was “very shy and yet agitated with them at the beginning”, which left them feeling hurt, she said.
She assisted them in understanding what the friendship meant to them and how the boy’s view on the effects and withdrawal symptoms of drug use and the stresses that come with police studies.
According to Ms. Lam, direct victims of substance abuse will also be the common people.
” When we see more and more like circumstances, what does it state of our world? What does it have to say about us? Does it make another child feeling a certain level of drug use?
A 16-year-old woman she worked with a few years ago was the subject of another story, according to Ms. Rachel Loh, senior cultural worker at Fei Yue.
” When her parents found out, there were a lot of problems at household and a lot of spats”, she said.
Her kids were quite frightened, and felt a lot of shame and guilt.