It was cool. But Nunnink soon found she couldn't stop taking drugs. We have 35 years of drug culture now,'' says Mitchell Rosenthal, president of the Phoenix House drug treatment program in New York, which conducted the new study of teen addicts. Rosenthal says he commissioned the study after speaking with three California teens who had used drugs with their parents. Parents who do not set limits and who try to be buddies with their kids are doing their kids a real disservice.
Kids have to be helped to control their impulses.
They have been there and done that, and they do not want their kids using drugs. So you avoid it. You don't deal with it. Dnistrian recommends honesty. So don't be surprised if they come home and tell you they've snorted cocaine or dropped acid.