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Some friends and I watched a television comedy about a family that was afraid of everything unfamiliar to them. The title of the skit was "The Fearful Family.

The world may seem full of temptations, but the facts show that a loving, interested family can be a major defense aganist drug use. Here are some tips for parents and other adults, gleaned from the World Wide Web.

Joseph Henry is now with the Maine State Police. When the Journal talked with him he was working as a prison guard in New Hampshire.

Randall Updegraff is a Christian Scientist who has been serving as a volunteer prison chaplain since 1986. He spoke with the Journal about the men he meets, particularly in relation to drug problems.

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I have to admit that Keith grew up in a home that wasn't the best in the world. I drank a good bit and was gone from home a great deal of the time.

Most people don't realize that it's easy to get involved with drugs, but it's really hard to get away from them. I first started drinking alcohol when I was about 15.

When I was stationed in Korea, the people I hung around with in the Air Force were smoking a lot of marijuana. After I returned to the States, I didn't do drugs until about 1965, when I was in southern California.

One afternoon when I was home alone, my husband's aunt telephoned. Frantically, she told me that my mother-in-law, who had a long history of drug addiction, was now high on drugs and out of control.

Is health or life more than a chemical reaction? The growth of mind-altering, behavior-modifying, body-regulating, and other drug products makes this more than an empty question. Whether one is staving off depression, high or low blood pressure, anti-social behavior, diabetes, impotence, or hyperactivity, drugs are available.