John Walters Quotes

Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.

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

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

Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.

This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.

I've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.

I don't do drugs. I don't like drugs.

A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.

We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.

But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.

The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.

I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help.

Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it.

I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.

Just say no to drugs!

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

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.

We have found that equivocation by the parents has contributed to eventual drug experimentation

Getting cigarettes out of the hands of kids before they get hooked, is family values.

We should not throw in the towel. Instead, we should be saying to young people, 'There is a better way for you to have a healthy and productive life, and that's not to get into drug use and drug abuse.'