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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Aliza Pressman and today's episode is going to be

really important if you have tweens or teens. Or if you know anybody who has

teens or tweens because we're talking about party culture and not just substance abuse,

but just the kind of substance use that is scaring people that is kind of the beginnings of

all of the difficult conversations that you have to have. But more importantly,

the difficult decisions that you have to make about curfew and what parties are acceptable

and how to help your kids learn how to navigate what's going on at parties. And we're talking about

everything from drinking to marijuana to fentanyl and all the things that you kind of

dread but need to know about. So this is a really practical conversation with adolescent medicine

expert Dr. Dolly Clark. She's a psychiatrist and works with families in Los Angeles.

She works with teenagers and with adults on just these topics. And one thing to keep in mind is

this is scary. So if you have kids who are embarking on just having a social life that's

outside of a fun play date and starting to get out there in the world and go to parties or even if

you're thinking about what to do when your kids are starting to play without parents around,

this is the conversation that you need to have. This is about you. I've actually pulled a lot of

my Instagram listeners. So if you follow me on at Reason Good Humans podcast, I asked what you want

need to talk to Dr. Clark about. So we're getting into some specific listener Q&A so that we can have

a reality check and the kind of conversation that you asked for. So this is not to scare you. This

is to have real conversations so that you can almost think about how to rank risk with your kids

in an honest way so that you don't just say never do anything, never go out and stay next to me

for the rest of your life because that's just not the reality of raising adolescents. So I've asked

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