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As aluded to by some posters above, I think it depends on what "family dinner" is like. We had dinner most nights as a family, with similar exceptions as above for extracurricular activities, but our family was sort of fucked up. That said, I think me and my sister both were pretty clean through highschool, but I spent a few years playing around with drugs in college. I may not have been a big partier in high school, but I think a fair amount of my teachers would say that despite the fact that the loved me to death, they also found me to be one of the biggest pains in the asses they ever taught.
Coincidentally, my drug use escalated, of course, shortly after I stopped with the family dinners thing. So there you go.
I agree with others that this correlation is most likely an indirect correlation, in that family dinners and reduced drug and alcohol use are both likely associated with strong family ties and communication. Just not always.
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