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Like Father, Like Son, also known as I learned it by watching you!, was a large-scale United States anti-narcotics 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 drug paraphernalia. 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 responds with a look of regret, a narrator then says, "Parents who use drugs have children who use drugs."

It was listed by Time as one of the top ten PSAs of all time.

See also

• War on Drugs

• Partnership for A Drug-Free America

References

1. "I learned it by watching you commercial". Bitchute.
2. "Top 10 Public-Service Announcements", Time, 4 September 2009, archived from the original on 2018-07-09, retrieved 2018-07-06

External links

• The original PSA as rebroadcast in I Love the 80s.
• Official PDFA website

• 1980s television commercials
• 1987 in American television
• 1987 quotations
• Advertising campaigns
• American advertising slogans
• American television commercials
• Anti-drugs public service announcements
• Drug policy of the United States
• Public service announcements of the United States