The more often kids had dinner with their parents the less likely they were to smoke, drink and use drugs.

Parent power is a potent force in getting kids to stay away from drugs and alcohol and cigarettes, and it's greatly underutilized.

Parents raise hell and refuse to send their kids to classrooms infested with asbestos. Yet every day they ship their children off to schools riddled with illegal drugs. When parents feel as strongly about drugs in our schools as they do about asbestos, we will have drug-free schools.

Drugs and alcohol have infested our schools and threaten our children and their ability to learn and develop their talents,

Parents don't think the preppy kids do drugs. They look at the gothic- dressed kids.

A lot of parents think it's a difficult subject, talking to their kids about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. They don't know what to say, when to say it and where to begin. So they end up starting too late.