All you can do as a parent is educate your teenager.

Talk to him or her as a friend, not as a militant!

If you have experience with drugs, don't be ashamed of that or try to hide it. As a former teenager myself, if my parents talked to me about drugs, on a non-judgmental level, it would have been much easier for me to listen to their advice vs. the advice they gave me from what they learned from "Just Say No To Drugs Ads"!

Granted, its a high possibility my parents have never tried drugs. That being the case, all they had to go by is what the media told them.

With that being said, I guess they did their best to educate me the best they knew how. But their way was just, No, No, No!

Back when I did try something, one of my biggest fears was that my parents would find out. Not, and I doing something that could endanger or kill me, but would I get caught!

This is why I say, parents, step over that boundary and talk to your teen!

Yes, it may be hard, it may be uncomfortable, you may be very embarrassed... but think how much harder it would be if something terrible happened!

My words of advice, as a parent of a 16 year old, is to talk, swallow the fear and make the talk....

Educate your child about whats going on.... and if you dont know educate yourself!