Dr Amer Siddiq On Mental Health

Adolescent development time is very important!Traits: Curious, risk taking, experimentingOff-the-shelf ‘drugs’ such as alcohol, tobacco are easily available.Highly likely to progress to heavy drugs: cocaine, heroin, marijuanaThey will likely fall behind in school.Medical health will also be affected.Deliberate self harm or suicide is also related to substance abuse.Challenges:increasing number of new drugsdelivery of drugs is a problemSocial media addiction can also lead to depression.Be vigilant with monitoring kids. Be apart of the development. ### Check out my videos on FB.We are on Raku!  Thank you for hosting our podcast. www.raku.myFind me on twitter @DrAmerSiddiqPsy or #medtweetmy @medtweetmyhq or on Facebook and Instagram at DrAmerSiddiqPsy.  Looking forward to reading your comments and tweets!Also MyMentalHealth on Youtube - focusing more on Malay content