Where can I find an educational book on recreational drugs for parents and teens?

Dear 24fps, I was researching your question and came across the following website: teens.drugabuse.gov It offers a wealth of information for both parents and their children. Good luck with this ever-present issue.

I have never heard of something called the raised finger approach and am unable to find any source to explain this to me. That is an interesting choice of "approaches" to mention. When I was in 7th grade, my Science class did a 2-week module on recreational drugs and what their affects on the body were.

It was the most enlightening thing I'd ever done in my entire life. To this day, (I am now 49) I do not, have not, and never will do drugs. It was just enough to know what they **could** have done to me that kept me from every wanting to try them.

There have been the Just Say No campaigns that were brought to us by the 1st Lady, Nancy Reagan and Say No To Drugs campaigns that have been widely successful in communities that were enthusiastic in being involved in the upbringing of their children. Now there is D.A.R.E. This behavioral information and education only works as well as the community, however. In certain cultures in the USA and across the world, there are those members of society that are anarchistic and will go against the grain.

If you wish to truly educate yourself and your children to stay away from drugs, your behavior has to show this as well as your words. "Do as I say, not as I do" does not work with drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, or eating. These behaviors are perceived to be OK because as parents you are the picture of everything good in your child's eyes.

If you drink alcohol, eat too much, smoke cigarettes or do drugs and the children have no influences in the home that do not, they are likely to get pulled into the negative habits of their parents. I do not smoke, barely ever drink, never do drugs, and eat well. My children are all adults who display the same habits that they learned from me growing up.

That is to say they also now bite their fingernails because I do. It takes very little for a child to pick up on the habits, even the little ones.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.