Many parents find talking about drugs and alcohol a very sensitive subject to discuss with their preteens and teens. DENIAL™ is a bridge for parents to open discussion on these crucial subjects. DENIAL™ opens the door of communication between you and your children. A family was playing DENIAL™ at their kitchen table. The father read the statement "Marijuana leads to two things; loss of memory and I forget the other. His laughing children immediately accused their Dad of making up the question. He showed the card and the ice was broken. Discussing subjects such as the costs of tobacco,consequences of marijuana use and abuse, restricted travel to other countries became easier to discuss in the safe and secure enviroment of their own home.

It is common knowledge that your children will be offered their first joint by their best friend. By having your children playing DENIAL™ with their best friends, we are building concentric protection or a ring of protection with their friend. If their friends then play DENIAL™ with their friends, we now have 2 rings or layers of protection against experimentation or curiosity. Questions of cheating on exams, stealing to pay for drugs, peer pressure, cost of smoking assist students with facts in a non preachy enviroment. Students and children are empowered to search for their own answers. Did you smoke marijuana Dad? Those kinds of questions with honest answers brings to the surface much of the controversy from their parent's era. Hulse Elementary School in Ottawa found that on stormy days DENIAL™ was played as often as Monopoly® or Teacher's Quiz. If I start experimenting at 14, I have a very good chance of having a substance abuse problem by the age of 20. $0.10 of prevention or hundreds of thousands of dollars of treatment and life long consequenses.