|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
return to archive
More Drugs in Schools, CASA Survey Says
A survey by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
(CASA) finds that 28 percent of middle-school students say that
drugs are available in their schools, up 47 percent since 2002,
the Associated Press reported Aug. 18.
Among high-school students surveyed, 62 percent said that drugs
were used, kept, or sold in their schools, up 47 percent.
Students who reported drugs being available in their schools
were three times more likely to try marijuana and twice as likely
to drink alcohol as those who said drugs were not available.
"Availability is the mother of use," said CASA President
Joseph Califano Jr.
Those who viewed drug use as morally wrong or who believed their
parents would be extremely upset about them using drugs were
-- unsurprisingly -- less likely to experiment with drugs. So
were kids who said they were comfortable confiding in their
parents.
"If this survey does anything, it really shouts to parents:
You cannot outsource your responsibility to law enforcement
or the schools," Califano said. "I think when parents
feel as strongly about drugs in the schools as they do about
asbestos in the schools, we'll start getting the drugs out of
the schools."
|
|
|
|
36975
Utica Road Ste 400 | Clinton Township, MI 48036 | 586.226.3440 x246
| fax 586.226.8820