Your Child and Mind-Altering Substances

From Psychology Today, "Substance abuse is among the most important parenting topics, and among the most ticklish. Key preventers of abuse are parents’ role modeling and placing the child in schools and activities with friends who are unlikely to be abusers. But done well, one or more conversations with your child can also help. And with alcohol seen as normative and marijuana increasingly legalized, a first conversation may be needed quite early in your child’s life.."

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