Illegal Drugs in Arizona

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This paper describes the use of illegal drugs, especially marijuana and cocaine, by middle school students in southern Arizona. The paper contains a section that defines the drug problem, presents some of its causes and also offers a long section on prevention, with suggestions of how to decrease the drug problem among middle school students in southern Arizona. The paper focuses a lot on Tucson.

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"In Southern Arizona as well as the rest of the United States, drug addiction is a serious and widespread problem among adolescents and the problem is growing. Although the discussion of drug use in juveniles used to be reserved for high school students, as time has progressed, the users of drugs have gotten younger and younger so it is now time to focus on drug addiction, especially addiction of marijuana and cocaine, by southern Arizona middle school students. It seems that the drug problem in middles schools today has been increasing in recent years. According to the National Survey of American Attitudes in Substance Abuse X: Teens and Parents, "Since 2002, the number of students who attend schools where drugs are used, kept or sold has jumped 41 percent for high school students and 47 percent for middle school students"(National, 2005)."

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