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Survey: One in 10 U.S. teens take Vicodin
The series of classroom surveys of 46,097 eighth, 10th and 12th graders, conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, found declines in teen marijuana use have stalled.
One in 20 reported using OxyContin. Nineteen percent of 12th graders reported they got their drugs by a doctor's prescription, 8 percent reported buying them from a dealer and 66 percent said they got drugs from a friend or relative, the survey found.
The number of high school seniors reporting they used methamphetamine in the past year is at 1.2 percent, down from 4.7 percent in 1999.
"We are encouraged by the reduction of methamphetamine use, but we know that each new generation of teens brings unique prevention and education challenges," Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, says in a statement.
Only 2.7 percent of eighth graders describe themselves as daily tobacco smokers, down from a peak rate of 10.4 percent in 1996, while 11.2 percent of seniors say they smoke daily, down from 24.6 percent in 1997. However, the rate of 10th graders using smokeless tobacco in the past month is 6.5 percent, up from last year and the same as it was in 1999.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 12/14/2009
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