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Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.

We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.

I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.