"Like Father, Like Son", also known as I learned it by watching you!, was a large-scale United States anti-

narcotics The term narcotic (, from ancient Greek ναρκῶ ''narkō'', "to make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with numbing or paralyzing properties. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates ...

campaign by Partnership for a Drug-Free America. Launched in July 1987, the campaign used a televised public service announcement. The PSA features a father confronting his son (Reid MacLean) in his bedroom after finding a box containing an unspecified controlled substance and

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. After his father angrily asks him how he learned to use drugs, the son shouts, "''You'', alright?! I learned it by watching ''you!''" As the father recoils from realizing the error of his own ways, a narrator then intones, "Parents who use drugs, have ''children'' who use drugs." It was listed by ''Time'' as one of the top ten PSAs of all time.

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The original PSA
as rebroadcast in I Love the 80s.
Official PDFA website
{{Anti-drug ad campaigns Public service announcements of the United States American advertising slogans Advertising campaigns American television commercials 1980s television commercials Drug policy of the United States 1987 in American television 1987 neologisms Anti-drugs public service announcements

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