Teenage Drug Abuse Statistics 2010: Look Beyond the Scare Stories: The Kids Are All Right

Look beyond the scare stories: the kids are all right
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Despite being told of the ''Drug epidemic in NSW schools'', according to the 2010 National Drug Strategy Household Survey, the rate of cannabis use by teenagers aged 14-19 has halved since 1998. In the previous 12 months, the same survey showed 90 per …
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Meth Use on the Decline, But Still a Dangerous Plague
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Quest Diagnostics, a leading provider of drug testing for employment reported tests with positive results for meth in the workplace nationally declined from 0.18 percent in 2006 to 0.10 percent in 2010. And the DEA reports that meth use among teens …
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Charges against juveniles jump; severity of youth crime also rises
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Last week, Cohen had to weigh what to do about David Homan, a 17-year-old who allegedly broke into and stole from a West Des Moines house in August and was also charged with drug possession. Prosecutors moved in September to transfer the older teen to …
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