[Monochron]

I was trying to figure out what my thoughts on this are, but I honestly think I may still be too close to the college culture of drinking. In my high school and college years the fact that someone was into drinking or did (relatively mundane) drugs tended to have very little to do with their success in school or in life later. What mattered had more to do with the amount they drank/used, the frequency, and if they developed an addiction or had the kind of personality that might fall victim to an addictive lifestyle. Determining if drugs or alcohol are going to have a negative effect on someone's life can be very hard to judge unless you know the person very well.

That said, alcohol in particular is treated in a very unhealthy way in American culture. While high school students of other countries have much more access to alcohol, typically the cultural pressures around it are much less "you can't drink often so you better get drunk". Catching those unhealthy tendencies and showing students healthy ways to treat alcohol is, I think, a very useful thing for adults to do.