Joseph Califano Quotes (9 Quotes)

Underage and pathological drinkers are the alcohol industry's most valuable customers. It is reckless for our society to rely on an industry with such an enormous interest in alcohol consumption by children, teens, alcoholics and alcohol abusers to curb such drinking.

Drugs and alcohol have infested our schools and threaten our children and their ability to learn and develop their talents,

Parents raise hell and refuse to send their kids to classrooms infested with asbestos. Yet every day they ship their children off to schools riddled with illegal drugs. When parents feel as strongly about drugs in our schools as they do about asbestos, we will have drug-free schools.

We've been doing research on substance abuse as though everybody was a man. But it's clear that women need different treatment.

The fact that so many dads are AWOL (absent) in their teens' lives increases the teens' risk of substance abuse,

Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.

Parent power is a potent force in getting kids to stay away from drugs and alcohol and cigarettes, and it's greatly underutilized.

It is time for each of us to stop looking out the window and start looking in the mirror.

The more often kids had dinner with their parents the less likely they were to smoke, drink and use drugs.