Parents worried about the risks of binge drinking and wanting to pick a more sedate school for college aged children need only count the number of bars near campus to get a pretty good idea of how much drinking will be going on come September.

Don’t want your teen to drink, smoke or do drugs? Well, there's no easy one answer, but one easy step in the right direction is as simple as sitting down at the dinner table together, as a family, 5 or more times a week.

While I'm sure that many take to the booze or the drugs as a coping mechanism in reaction to horrible traumas of childhood...I gotta wonder if there aren't more of us that are just like me. People that just really really liked to get high and get drunk.