Joseph Califano Quotations

Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.

The fact that so many dads are AWOL (absent) in their teens' lives increases the teens' risk of substance abuse,

It is time for each of us to stop looking out the window and start looking in the mirror.

Underage and pathological drinkers are the alcohol industry's most valuable customers. It is reckless for our society to rely on an industry with such an enormous interest in alcohol consumption by children, teens, alcoholics and alcohol abusers to curb such drinking.

For a woman, a drink is like two drinks are for a man, so a woman gets intoxicated more rapidly.

The issue was, was he going to be decisive? What was he going to do?