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Everyone knows it's important for parents to talk with their teens about drugs and alcohol. Communication is a simple but vital tool that you, as the parent of a teenager, have at your disposal to help your son or daughter stay happy, healthy and drug-free. But it's not always easy to figure out how to talk to teens, whether the subject of conversation is drugs, school or just casual chitchat. Here are five steps parents can take to prepare for a productive discussion with their teen about drug and alcohol use. Each step includes a brief written exercise to help you practice a necessary skill: self-communication.

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"Republican legislators slammed President Barack Obama's economic agenda on Friday for mimicking the ideals of socialist European governments, one day after the president revealed his $3.6tn budget for 2010. At a conservative policy gathering in Washington, lawmakers repeatedly attacked Obama for planning a massive uptick in spending on energy, education, healthcare and other programmes. "Pushing back these efforts to basically Europeanise America will not be easy,"

Psychologist James Gilligan argues that there is a common emotional experience shared by all perpetrators of violent crime: shame. According to Gilligan, shame is also the primary motivation behind government-sanctioned punishments. Crime and punishment share a common purpose: to annihilate shame and restore self-respect. The result: violent crime never ends. Punishment of violent criminals replaces public shame with pride, and the community feels better now that "something has been done." But punishment does not heal shame; it only hands it back to the criminal, who must commit more violent crime in order to correct what he perceives as an injustice done to him by the authorities.

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