Teenage Drug Use and Abuse

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"This research examines drug use and abuse by teenagers. The research will set forth the context in which drugs-related issues have arisen in the culture and will discuss causes and strategies for prevention of teenage drug use.
There is a bewildering array of statistics associated with knowledge of teenage drug use, although cyclical patterns to teenagers' use of drugs were identified in the last two decades of the 20th century. In 1979, for example, 54.2% of high school seniors admitted to illicit drug use, while in 1992 only 27.1% did so. In 1997, the figure was at 42.4% (Teen, 1999). On the other hand, a 1995 study published by the Columbia University medical school reported that some two-thirds of American teenagers at least experiment with drugs before finishing high school, and that about one-third use an illicit drug besides .."

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