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Addiction Medicine
Nonprofit alliance says class of '79 fails parenting test for drug education
April 28th, 2005
The class of 1979 was the most active in the nation's history for substance abuse. Now, they are parents of middle school-age children and their own experiences as teens are making them more lackadaisical than older parents when it comes to counseling their own children about "getting high." Some 12% of them have never talked to their children about inhalant, alcohol or drug abuse. Now their youngsters are pre-teens and middle-school age, and their view of risks is in steep decline, according to Steve Pasierb, CEO of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. "Parents who are not communicating to their kids and kids who don't perceive the risks of inhalants is a recipe...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-04-28)
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