DRUG STATISTICS IN OUR YOUTH

The information below should be a wake up to every parent out there.While the figures are a few years old,more recent ones are just as bad,if not worse.PROTECT YOUR KIDS! HUGS REALLY ARE BETTER THEN DRUGS! Legal Help If you are in need of legal help

Drug Statistics ("borrowed" from Help Your Community.org)
According to the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 11.2% of 12-17 year-olds reported current use of illicit drugs in 2003.

Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Results from the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: National Findings, September 2004

Approximately 30.5% of youths reported using an illicit drug at least once during their lifetime and 21.8% reported using an illicit drug within the past year.

Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Results from the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: National Findings, September 2004

According to the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, youths who participated in activities during the past year were less likely to have used drugs in the past month than youths who did not participate in activities.

Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Results from the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: National Findings, September 2004

Among youths aged 12 to 17 who participated in two or more youth activities (for example, band, sports, student government, or dance lessons), 10.4% had used an illicit drug in the past month. Among youths indicating one or no youth activities in the past year, 17.9% reported past month illicit drug use.

Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Results from the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: National Findings, September 2004 www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/juveniles/index.html

Substance abuse among youth has also been strongly linked to delinquency. Arrest, adjudication, and intervention by the juvenile justice system are eventual consequences for many youth engaged in alcohol and other drug use.

Source: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Drug Identification and Testing in the Juvenile Justice System, May 1998 www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/juveniles/index.html

Youth’s immature physical and psychological development makes them more susceptible than adults to the harmful effects of drug abuse.

Source: ONDCP Drug Policy Information Clearinghouse Fact Sheet www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/factsht/juvenile/index.html

Results from the 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse indicate that increased rates of past month use of cigarettes, alcohol, or any illicit drug had a deleterious effect on students’ grades.

Source: National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, August 2001 www.oas.samhsa.gov/nhsda/2k1nhsda/vol1/toc.htm

Results from the 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse indicate that youth who reported alcohol or illicit drug use during the past year were more likely to be at risk for suicide than those who did not use the substances.

Source: National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, August 2001 www.oas.samhsa.gov/nhsda/2k1nhsda/vol1/toc.htm

It is clear that drugs are a problem,please parents,make your children aware,at a much younger age then you may normally think.I started smoking when I was eight years old,was committing my first crime at nine years of age-stealing cigaretts from cars parked on the street(small town in the sixties,NOBODY ever locked their doors).
You may smile at this,but nicotine is a drug as much as herion and even harder to give up(though less physicaslly addcitive)and drugs lead to crime.