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Drug
Use: High School and Youth Trends 2001 Monitoring the Future Study (MTF) The MTF survey is conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and is funded by National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health. Since 1975, the survey has tracked 12th graders' illicit drug use and related attitudes; in 1991, 8th and 10th graders were added to the study. For the 2001 study, 44,346 students were surveyed from a representative sample of 424 public and private schools nationwide.
For more details, please see: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Special K: A Club Drug Ketamine is an animal tranquilizer, but did you know that it is also being used as a club drug? Special K is a disassociative drug, meaning that the user loses the normal sense of connection between body and mind. It comes in tablet, powder, or liquid form. It's actually similar in appearance to cocaine and methamphetamine and is sometimes mistaken for those drugs. In powder form, it's sometimes sprinkled on tobacco or marijuana and smoked. It also can be injected, but the tranquilizing effects of the drug are so powerful that users sometimes lose control of their bodies before they finish the injection. Large doses can lead to convulsions, brain damage, heart attack, stroke, coma, and even death. More about
Special K can be found on TheAnti-Drug.com, a
substance abuse education site for parents and teens.
Source: The Anti-Drug.com Washington
State Survey of Adolescent Health Behaviors 2000 The 2000
Washington State Survey of Adolescent Health Behaviors (WSSAHB) is a statewide
survey assessing the health-related attitudes and behaviors of Washington’s
public school students. As in all
of the previous state surveys, alcohol was reportedly the substance of
choice, followed by cigarettes and marijuana. Alcohol use in the past
30 days was reported by 6.6 percent of Grade 6 students, 22.8 percent
of Grade 8 students, 37.6 percent of Grade 10 students, and 46.8 percent
of Grade 12 students. After an essentially steady increase from 1992 to
1998, binge drinking decreased among students in Grades 6, 8, and 10 and
leveled off among Grade 12 students. The rates of binge drinking, however,
remained high: 4.7 percent of Grade 6 students, 14.9 percent of Grade
8 students, 23.2 percent of Grade 10 students, and 31.8 percent of Grade
12 students reported binge drinking in the past two weeks. Marijuana
use in the past 30 days decreased from 1998 to 2000 from 16.5 to 12.0
percent among Grade 8 students, from 26.6 to 21.9 percent among Grade
10 students, and from 28.7 to 24.4 percent among Grade 12 students. These
declines represent a substantial decrease in the number of marijuana users.
The 2000
survey was the first administration that asked students about the use
of party drugs (e.g., ecstasy). Almost none of the Grade 6 students (0.9
percent) had ever tried party drugs. This percentage increased among older
students: 4.8 percent of Grade 8 students, 9.3 percent of Grade 10 students,
and 13.5 percent of Grade 12 students had tried party drugs at some time
in their lives. The average
ages of the first use of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana were virtually
identical to those reported in 1998, indicating that the average age of
first use has not changed over the past two years. Among Grade 12 students
who had ever used the substance, the average age of first use was 13.9
years for alcohol, 13.0 years for cigarettes, and 14.3 years for marijuana. For a wealth
of drug-related facts, see the Child
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