Keep someone off drugs or keep someone away from drugs

You can't keep off unless you've been on.

I wonder if this is a British/American thing. In British converstaion, if someone says they are "off" something - booze, cigarettes, meat, etc, it is completely understood that this means they have recently given that thing up. I can see that keeping off something does not necessarily imply have been on it in the first place.

Child: I've never been on drugs.
Parent: Good. Keep staying off them.

Is it "to keep someone off drugs" or "to keep someone away from drugs"?
If both are possible, do they mean the same thing?
If so, which is more commonly used?

I got you covered Layman. We need more songs about ice cream beverages.

Good work, Max! That Babe, and the other sisters in that vid, is indeed HOT, eh!?

Here's another classic, from 1953, with the same theme, eh?

Layman: Aren't you from the U.S.? I thought that concluding/ending a sentence with "eh?" was Canadian English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eh

Today, the Cajuns make up a significant portion of south Louisiana's population and have exerted an enormous impact on the state's culture...Since their establishment in Louisiana, the Cajuns have developed their own dialect, Cajun French, and developed a vibrant culture including folkways, music, and cuisine. Strong Cajun roots, influence, and culture can also be found in parts of Southern Mississippi. These areas include; Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Gulfport, Gautier, Natchez, D'Iberville, and Biloxi, Mississippi.

Louisiana Creole people (French: Créoles de Louisiane, Spanish: Gente de Louisiana Creole), are persons descended from the inhabitants of colonial Louisiana during the period of both French and Spanish rule. The term creole was originally used by French settlers to distinguish persons born in Louisiana from those born in the mother country or elsewhere. As in many other colonial societies around the world, creole was a term used to mean those who were "native-born". It also came to be applied to African-descended slaves and Native Americans who were born in Louisiana.

Colonists referred to themselves and enslaved blacks who were native-born as creole, to distinguish them from new arrivals from France and Spain as well as Africa.[2] American Indians, such as the Creek people, intermixed with Creoles also, making three races present in the ethnic group.

Like “Cajun,” the term “Creole” is a popular name used to describe cultures in the southern Louisiana area.

“Creole” is still used to describe the heritage and customs of the various people who settled Louisiana during early, French colonial times. In addition to the French Canadians, the amalgamated Creole culture in southern Louisiana includes influences from the Chitimacha, Houma, and other native tribes, enslaved West Africans, Spanish-speaking Isleños (Canary Islanders), and French-speaking Gens de Couleur Libres from the Caribbean

Particularly in the slave society of the American South, slavery had become a racial caste. Whites classified society into whites and blacks (the latter associated strongly with slaves).

The French-speaking mixed-race population came to be called "Creoles of color". It was said that "New Orleans persons of color were far wealthier, more secure, and more established than freed unmixed Black Creoles and Cajuns elsewhere in Louisiana." By law they enjoyed most of the same rights and privileges as whites. They could and often did challenge the law in court and won cases against whites.

Race did not play as central a role as it does in Anglo-American culture: oftentimes, race was not a concern, but instead, family standing and wealth were key distinguishing factors in New Orleans and beyond. The groups (Latin and Anglo New Orleaneans) had “two different schools of politics [and differed] radically...One aspires to equality, the other to identity. One will forget that he is a Negro in order to think that he is a man; the other will forget that he is a man to think that he is a Negro.”

After the United States acquired the area in the Louisiana Purchase, mixed-race Creoles of Color resisted American attempts to impose their binary racial culture. In the American South slavery had become virtually a racial caste, in which most people of any African descent were considered to be lower in status.

Today, the Cajuns make up a significant portion of south Louisiana's population and have exerted an enormous impact on the state's culture...Since their establishment in Louisiana, the Cajuns have developed their own dialect, Cajun French, and developed a vibrant culture including folkways, music, and cuisine.

Layman: Aren't you from the U.S.? I thought that concluding/ending a sentence with "eh?" was Canadian English.

There are different dialects that have similar features... it can be a part of more than one creole.

In Canada there was a mixture of English and French. In Cajun country that was a mixture of English and French. I wonder if this is just a coincidence.

You don't frighten us you English pig dogs!
Go and boil your bottoms! Son of a silly person!
I'll blow my nose at you, so called Arthur king! You and all your silly
English cunnnnnnnnnigits!
Tthppbpbb!!(making fart nosies with tongue)
...

I don't wanna talk to you no more you empty headed animal foot
Trough water! I'll fart in your general direction! Your mother was a
Hamster and you father smelt of eldiberry!!!!