Fewer and fewer adults currently attend PTA, school board, church, and community meetings to discuss the problem of youthful drug abuse. Of several possible explanations for this phenomenon the one that is most plausible seems to be that feelings of impotence are engendered in adults by the failure of previous rallying meetings. Meetings focused around adult-adolescent interactions seem to produce greater response because of the hope they instill.
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