text: The excellent curricula from the Abstinence and Marriage Partnership will equip middle and high school students with vital, critical decision making tools that will help them throughout their lives.  Students completing the curricula will learn how to make choices that will move them toward positive goals, and away from all risky, negative choices.  Eight great chapters are "Living life on purpose", "Standing strong - resisting pressure", "Thinking ahead - choosing to be free", "Protecting the mind - taking control of the media", "The power of self-control - building your character", "Marriage rocks - looking forward to your future", "Making a fresh start - letting go of your past", and "The big picture - Life is short.  Live Well".   See more at http://www.ampartnership.org/.   To truly solve many of our problems, we need to move upstream.  If we do not equip our youth with good decision making tools, then the rates of drug use and crime will persist or get worse.