How Parents Can Help Prevent Drug And Alcohol Problems in College

I’ll never forget the first few days of my son’s freshman year of college. While he attended his orientation, the parents attended theirs, and were given some alarming facts about drug and alcohol problems in college. We learned that the local police are on the look-out for under-age drinkers during the first few weeks of school and that students who have been caught with drugs in the dorms have been asked to leave school.

Would my son make the right choices? Would I get call in the middle of...