"Training a child not to use drugs is not unlike housebreaking a pet. If the newspaper across the bridge of the nose comes at the right time, the pet soon makes the association between the "fwap on the nose and the action. Children need such rudimentary training where drugs are concerned."
?MILLER NEWTON/BETH POLSON, Not My Kid
Whenever I hear someone talk about drug abuse, I get funny pictures in my mind. I think of a kid with a stick beating a plastic baggie of grass lying on the ground. I picture a kid jumping up and down on a plastic bottle of pills, grinding them into the sidewalk with his heel. These pictures may be a personal quirk, but they point to a very important distinction. Teenagers "use drugs".
?MILLER NEWTON, Gone Way Down