John Walters
John Walters
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We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.
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Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.
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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.
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Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.
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Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.
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Over the past three years there has been a 17 percent decrease in teenage drug use.
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I know President Alvaro Uribe is committed and so is President Bush. Obviously we all want this process to go faster, and we're working toward that.
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In 2001, President Bush asked me to become Director of National Drug Control Policy, a Cabinet-rank position that coordinates federal drug programs.
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It will not take all of the provisions exactly, but it will take many of them and make them nationwide.
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They are more likely to be influenced by peer pressure, even when they have been told and accepted that these behaviors are risky for them.
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They barely got the money out the door to recruit, train and deploy these individuals. It takes too much time for this to have had an effect, ... That's what's absurd about the White House claim.
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You cannot do my job and visit people in the field and not see that faith is at the heart of what many find an important support in their recovery. No one is trying to use government funds to fund religion inappropriately, but we are not going to turn our back on programs and dimensions of programs that are obviously saving lives.
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twice as many eighth-graders have tried marijuana today than a decade ago.
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The trends of substance use among our adolescent girls are alarming.