Is this a shock?

Teen Drug Use Linked to Friends' Activities

Well who knew? To me, this is very obvious. What I think is most surprising are the statistics.

A new study reveals what many parents probably already suspect: A teen's friends
play a big role in his or her actions.

The more sexually active friends a teen has and the more time a teen spends with a boyfriend or girlfriend, the greater the risk that teen will smoke, drink or use drugs, according to the annual report by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.

I grew up in the world of my parents knew my friends and my friends' parents. That was the only way we were allowed to go to each other's houses - inside each other's houses. If your parents found out you went in a house and they didn't know the parents that was a beating waiting to happen. Correction: a beating and a grounding because you didn't need to leave the house if you didn't know how to act. My daughters will grow up with the same kind of rules. Even know when Munchkin says she wants to go to so and so's house. The reply is always the same. "No, I don't know that person's parents."

The moral of the story: Know what your kids are doing. It's like the campaign says - parents are the anti-drug.