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"Steady Eddy" nonsmoki...@comcast.net
Teen drug use is dropping!!! I think we can all agree that this is good news. The University of Michigan research proves that we are turning the corner on Teen drug use.
Teen drug use drops The percentage of teens using illicit drugs has fallen every year for the past decade, according to a new report.
8th grade 10th grade 12th grade 1997 29.4% 47.3 54.3 1998 29.0% 46.2 54.1 1999 28.3% 45.6 54.1 2000 26.8% 45.6 54.0 2001 26.8% 45.6 53.9 2002 24.5% 44.6 53.0 2003 22.8% 41.4 51.1 2004 21.5% 39.8 51.1 2005 21.4% 38.2 50.4 2006 20.9% 36.1 48.2 SOURCE: University of Michigan, 'Monitoring the Future, 2006'
"Steady Eddy" nonsmoki...@comcast.net
the scientific proof is in!!! Youth drug use is down Nice
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Huuuraaaayyy!!!
More weed for me!!!!
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More weed for me!!!!
px ...@cadence.com (Pete nospam Zakel)
Not useful information unless we also have the data on teen alcohol and other legal drug use.
-Pete Zakel (p...@seeheader.nospam) "A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other."
"MP" m...@rocketmail.com
I do agree.
No it doesn't; teen drug use has been up and down over the decades (with no correlation to government anti-drug efforts, by the way).
"MP" m...@rocketmail.com
I do agree.
No it doesn't; teen drug use has been up and down over the decades (with no correlation to government anti-drug efforts, by the way).
"Steady Eddy" nonsmoki...@comcast.net
I would have to agree with the University of Michigan and say that the 10 year decline is statistically significant.
px ...@cadence.com (Pete nospam Zakel)
I'd want to see the figures on alcohol and other legal drug use before I would say that.
Also, even if the decline is statistically significant, we still don't know the cause of the decline.
-Pete Zakel (p...@seeheader.nospam) "Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them."
"Steady Eddy" nonsmoki...@comcast.net
I have a theory or opinion on the decline. Drug testing is one reason.
Teenagers are being drug tested in high school and grade school. Kids can't participate in sports without p***ing random drug tests. Another key is that it is no longer fashionable to be a drug addict. Junkies are outcasts and no teenager wants to be on the outside (peer pressure). I am glad for the decline.
"Fred G. Mackey" nos...@dont.spam
Digging a bit deeper into the report: "The use of inhalants had been rising over the past several years. In 2006, however, 8th and 12th grades showed no further increase??”only 10th grade showed a 0.5 percentage point rise (non-significant). But the investigators are still concerned about a continuing decline in perceived risk?????”the proportion of students seeing this cl*** of drugs as dangerous has been decreasing steadily in the lower grades for the past five years." Wonderful! Kids are not using marijuana as much, but they are huffing paint more. Sorry, but I cannot agree with you that this is good news.
"Not all drugs have shown appreciable declines from their recent peaks.
In particular, the use of prescription-type drugs like narcotics, tranquilizers, and sedatives remains at relatively high levels.
After a long period of steady increasing use among 12th graders (data for 8th and 10th graders are not available), narcotic drugs other than heroin reached a peak very recently, in 2004. There has been relatively little decline in the use of this cl*** of drugs since then. (The annual prevalence rate reached 9.5 percent among 12th graders in 2004 and stands at 9 percent in 2006.) This general cl*** of drugs contains narcotic pain relievers, two of which are OxyContin and Vicodin (and data for 8th and 10th graders are available for these two specific drugs).
OxyContin use increased steadily among 12th graders from when it was first measured in 2002 until 2005, with annual prevalence rising from 4 percent to 5.5 percent, before dropping back this year to 4.3 percent.
Unfortunately, the younger students, who had not previously been showing much increase in their OxyContin use, reached their highest levels observed so far, with an annual prevalence in 8th grade of 2.6 percent and in 10th grade of 3.8 percent in 2006." "Sedatives, including barbiturate sedatives, are another cl*** of prescription-type drugs that showed a substantial, if gradual, increase over a period of years."
"Fred G. Mackey" nos...@dont.spam
How prevalent is this drug testing?
"Data on the number of schools that are testing teens is not widely available. A 2003 University of Michigan study showed that 5 percent of schools tested student athletes, and only 2 percent of schools tested participants in extracurricular activities. Some 18 percent of schools tested for any reason, including suspicion of drug use." http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0520/p01s04-ussc.html Is that enough testing to account for the decline?
I don't think so.
Then there is the disturbing trend among people subject to drug tests of using harder drugs such as crack instead of marijuana since the length of time a drug screen will detect it is so much shorter.
Kids who use drugs don't believe they are going to become addicts. In fact, most of them do not become addicts.
Junkies are an extremely small percentage of drug users.
They just started asking about abuse of OTC drugs - 1 in 14 12th graders reported using them recreationally.
That should disturb you. Even though data is not available, I'm certain that represents an increase since I was in high school.
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