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Survey:
Drug
Use
Rising
Among
Youngest
Teens:
Current
strategies
failing
to
curtail
use
11/2/97
A survey released this week by the Parents Resource Institute for Drug
Education (PRIDE) reported that 11.4% of junior high school students had
used drugs in the previous month, up from 10.9% during the previous year.
Among high school students, 24.6% reported use, as compared with 24.2%
the year before.
While there are any number of reasons to doubt the validity of numbers
of self-report drug use surveys given to young people, the trend is nonetheless
troubling. There are two important issues, however, which are not addressed
by any of the numerous youth drug use surveys. They are, first, in what
context is drug use among young teens occurring? And second, if children
as young as 11 and 12 have this type of access to drugs in a nation that
is spending tens of billions of dollars per year predicated on protecting
this very population, what does that say about the strategies we've employed?
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Issue #17, 11/2/97
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