ERIC ED521379: Adolescent Substance Use: America's #1 Public Health... | |
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This report finds that adolescent smoking, drinking, | |
misusing prescription drugs and using illegal drugs is, | |
by any measure, a public health problem of epidemic | |
proportion, presenting clear and present danger to | |
millions of America's teenagers and severe and expensive | |
long-range consequences for the entire population. This | |
report is a wake-up call for everyone, regardless of | |
whether they seek to win the future by investing in the | |
youth or seek to cut public spending to avoid a back- | |
breaking financial burden on their children and | |
grandchildren. The findings and recommendations in this | |
report offer common ground and opportunity to help | |
achieve both objectives. This report finds that: (1) | |
Three-fourths of high school students (75.6 percent, 10.0 | |
million) have used addictive substances including | |
cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana or cocaine; (2) Almost | |
half of high school students (46.1 percent, 6.1 million) | |
are current users of these substances; and (3) Of high | |
school students who have ever smoked a cigarette, had a | |
drink of alcohol or used other drugs, 19.4 percent have a | |
clinical substance use disorder, as do 33.3 percent of | |
current users. Appendices include: (1) Methodology; (2) | |
2010 CASA Survey of Parents of High School Students; (3) | |
2010 CASA Survey of High School Students; (4) 2010 CASA | |
Survey of High School Teachers and School Personnel; (5) | |
Key Informant Interviewees; and (6) Screening, Brief | |
Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT). A | |
bibliography is included. (Contains 29 tables, 50 figures | |
and 1452 notes.) [Funding for this paper was provided by | |
Legacy[R] and the Michael Alan Rosen Foundation.] | |
Date Published: 2016-02-03 20:42:42 | |
Identifier: ERIC_ED521379 | |
Item Size: 265991441 | |
Language: english | |
Media Type: texts | |
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