September 03, 2009
ots of teens have questions about drugs. That’s why each year, NIDA scientists spend a day chatting online with high school students and answering their questions.
At NIDA’s last Drug Facts Chat Day, ham223 asked this question:
“What types of drugs are most used by high school students?”
According to NIDA’s Monitoring the Future Survey—which looks at the different drugs that teens are using—alcohol is number one (yes, it’s a drug), followed by tobacco and marijuana, which are pretty equal. Turns out, though, that not many teens are using most illegal drugs. The survey shows that in 2008, fewer than 1 in 6 10th graders reported that they used any illegal drug in the past month. And the numbers are still going down.
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Real Teens Ask About Drugs
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there not going down they are increasing
I hope they're going down. I really hate how stupid teens use drugs without knowing what they're doing to their bodies.
why do people do drugs any way????
yup..the stats are increasing..
Hi! im currently a Junior in Highschool and we're starting or Senior project reports and my project is on "The causes and effects on Teen Drug Addiction". I was wondering if you could give me any type of advice or guide me to some great sites that would help. If you could do that, that would be great. Thanks for your time.
hi, there are a number of sites that could be helpful for the project you mentioned. definitely check out NIDA's site at www.drugabuse.gov and also check out Monitoring the Future which has a lot of information on the abuse of drugs by teens (http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/). Another good data source is the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/nsduhLatest.htm) which includes info on those 12 to 17. hope those help.
the drug increase at my school have increased dramatically. these test that say they are decreasing arent reliable source. these students could be lieing because they dont want teacher and facutly members getting to suspicious about wat they are doing between classes and after school hours. its best they dont know much so there wont be a problem later.
I had a friend that was doing drugs and I could not stop her from doing them and then she was a runaway and all these other thing and after a while we were not friends anymore. I could not be around that kind of person that was doing drugs.
My school has so many drugs but the most popular is marijuana, but where i go now there is none since i go to a boarding school for doing it.
I'm gonna have to agree with Kort. i been gone for awhile(locked up), but drugs are on the rise! Gangas real big around my school, and its not goin anywhere soon. Mabe its just my school but i doubt it. sorry to crush the buzz!
hi im a high school student from ireland ... i think dat drugs are really bad for your health !! drugs make you have no self confidence and you are never yourself... soo even tho ive never taken drugs !! my advice is too any 1 to never ever take drugs ... its not worth losing your family and fighting wit ur friends...
hi there im a typical high school student from ireland.. everyone goes through the stages of life when they feel they have to tke drugs ..its very depressing ..There very bad for your health and damage your body ..I know a few people that tried drugs and they are after loosing there self confidence because of drugs ..The amount of people taking drugs is after increasing .
the goverment is all wrong.
why is tobacco legal?
why is alcohol legal?
the goverment makes money!
they have invested in these companies
we send people out to war to die everyday, we pay our citizens to kill other people, the goverment doesn't give a shit about our own people because they make money. because our economy is so bad that we have to start a war to boost our own economy. because we can only make guns and military technology. thats it
we spend 1 trillion dollars every year on defense, not schools, not healthcare, not for the poor, not for the homeless, or the people who cannot afford to eat
goverment needs to rethink itself and it priorities
goverment sponsored websites ... ha
war on drugs... ha
and to the people who don't know about this... you should
i'm from the west coast
its pretty easy to get drugs in my school. its a good high school, we're stereotyped to get good grades
i could say for sure that at least twenty people (in my grade alone, we're a pretty small school) smoke pot (or at least something that gives off smoke that you can roll into a joint.)
but will it really matter in the future? i mean why are there not armies of potheads if so many schools hve increased number of kids taking drugs?
hey, actually the numbers of kids taking drugs is decreasing which is good. it means that kids are making good choices when it comes to their health and their future. like i've said before on the blog drugs (any type) don't impact all people in the same way. the point is why take the risk? there's no definite way to tell how a drug will effect you or even what's in the drug. for example, right now we're dealing with an issue where a lot of the cocaine in the U.S. is being cut with---and I am not making this up---a medication used by vets to kill parasites in some animals. http://www.samhsa.gov/newsroom/advisories/090921vet5101.aspx
DECREASING?! haha, that's funny.
EVERYONE i know has taken or does weed.
My high school is FULL of druggies and there's 2500 people in it.
and so is another school near mine, it's never hard to get any type of drug around here.
so really? decreasing?
i HIGHLY doubt that.
Kids these days are just smarter and won't say when or if they ever smoked weed.
take it from someone that IS in grade 10, knows almost everyone at my school and whos druggies, and who does it herself.
high school sdudants mostly pot,weed,nichotine,but it is good that the highschool students abusing drugs hasgone down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they are using them all over the world no matter if their legal or not
drugs are everwhere you turn you cant get a way from them once you start
drugs r bad cause instead of developing a life skill, u r satisfied with being bored.... my mom has 4 brothers and 3 sisters nd each of em hav 5 kids nd 30 out of 40 r on drugs, maybe cause the 10 r under 10 =]
why are people doing it?
@2--Many different reasons, likely. What do you think?
why do people do dat? :(
Hi! im a high school girl in florida!
more than 75% ifnot more of my school has done some type of drug.
its normal..
there really not that bad.
trust me.
i've done them.
not anymore but ya.
i didnt die, didnt steal anything, didnt go to jail..
nothing.
my grades didnt slack..
i didnt fight with my parents..
i didnt lose my friends..
nothing..
i didnt try to kill myself..
none of that stupid BS.
i bet more than half of you who posted something on here has done some type of drug illegal or not.
so ya.
@hha.--You are lucky. Not everyone will have a "bad" experience with drugs, but a lot of people do, and some get addicted. It's risky, cause you never know how they will affect you.
well to you all who say buddahs bad.. well i think your obviously stupid. do your research its actually good for your body, helps prevent cancer as well, their is no heath death reason to why someone died from buddah. you dont get all retarted from it, doesnt harm your body. ciggerets are another thing which does give you cancer. people are going to do drugs no atter what you think and for the retards who try to get you to stop doing drugs but never done em stfu you dont kno nothing!! do a drug n figure it out most the smart people at my school smoke buddah daily and most the people who dont didnt pass their high school exit exame andfor the ones who did we hardly showed up to school and wen we did we were HELLUh smart. and thats rude calling us druggies a druggie is someone whos abuses drugs and is phsyically addicted to them which buddah isnt addicting at all [expl. deleted by editor] what people say their just tryna get you not to smoke it, i say if you really want to go for it your life and who are people to tell you what to do with it.(: pardon my langue.
however i quit smoking on my own bc it really kills your money and i like purching clothing often(:
dude. drugs are a problem but i guess its really just a point of view. everyone has friends or knows someone in school who does drugs. its not good, but still its always goin to be around. thats the world. get used to it
Ok...I'm in grade 10. And I've did drugs. My health is fine. I didn't do anything stupid. Before you try a new drug you should research it and find out what and what not to do while high or geeked out on the drug. Most people don't do this cuz there dum.
if u haven't done a drug don't try to tell some one to quit.
I did drugs in freshman yeah don't do them u end up getting in trubble with the school and then the police get involved and it just a night mare don't every try they become addicting and no matter how hard u try to hid it it will never get away with u.
i would say 3 in 6 kids in my school have done drugs in the last month
Illegal druggers should be thrown in jail for ever! And the dealers of course! If you think drugging is o.k., than you have taken them yourself and want to say you didn't do anything wrong!
4 me there are 2 in 10 students are taking drugs in my school.
hello in my school, there's no taking drugz. our school is so strict to their students.
hope all school are the same to all the school where i came from. haaizt.......
take care
salaklar
To the people who have done drugs and say nothing is wrong, you are horribly mistaken. You were just very lucky that it didn't become an addiction.
And why try drugs? My mom, dad, sister, and brother have all done drugs and they have all been addicted to them. And don't give me the, "They were stupid" [expletive del] excuse. Like an above poster said, you're trying to make a sorry excuse for yourself because you did something wrong and you know it.
@NiCOLE, you must be taking some [expl. del] classes if you think school is easy for tweakers. If you think school is so easy, I can see that you're doing so good because you have top notch grammar skills. By the way, I think you meant "purchasing" since "purching" is nonexistent in the English language.
I know some of you might think I'm some adult that knows it all and is full of themself, but no. I am a 16-year-old who is doing very well in school. I passes my HSEE and I've taken all Honors and AP classes thus far, and I do NOT do drugs. It is an understatement to say that I hate drugs. They're horrible and they took my family away from me. But I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the world, because I have my family now.
You may not see it past your narrow mind, but drugs ruin lives, whether you choose to believe or not.
That's completely wrong. The most used drug is by far weed. Also numbers are definitely increasing and I'm glad. It's good to see no one is falling for this [expletive deleted, per g/l]. I no the amount of drugs I use is increasing.
such a nice information and thanks for sharing.
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Just because you passed your HSEE and you’ve taken all Honors and AP classes doesnt make you smart. and your pretty stupid if ya think it does. so everyone who says im wrong shut the hell up and go back to school
Stonerguy is right, The most used drug is weed. and no drugs arent good. but some people have good resons for using them.
addicts are nowhere decreasing, they are increasing.No serious step is taken by the authority.At the back of the cigarette packs it is mentioned that smoking is injurious to health but is the supply of these packs stopped...???
no....its not...so the no.of addicts will also not stop.
Hi, i'm a student in Canada
Alot of students around me were smoking marijuana, until late (last grades!)
I'm pretty sure if you stop them all at the exit of the school on a thursday or friday, you would get at least 20 to a 100 students with either marijuana, pills, mushroom and all kinds of other stuff...
And i was in a private school!!!
Anyway, my professors said Internet doesn't help either with the drugs being shown and used everywhere.
One wrote a research on the effect of internet on a learning process about a specefic subject who i found very interesting.
And inovision did NetSmartz, a little add-on that you enable and shows good (no drugs, s*x, violence, or least possible) content only.
PS:Hope this helps for your kids, i wasn't aware there was that much bad stuff on internet until i got my own computer and own appartment!
Thank you,
LP
-proud smoke-free student-
It's cooler to say no!
were can i find a website that is on drugs
@libbie There's a lot of good information right here on Sara Bellum Blog. Check back frequently - we're always updating with new blog posts! For more info right now, you might also want to check out the NIDA for Teens site, especially for facts about prescription drugs: http://teens.drugabuse.gov/index.php.
Parents should monitor their son and daughter's activities maybe this could help fight against drugs to teens.
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right now im in high school, year 10, and i have seen many people going with drugs. i know many people that smoke cigarettes, and even some that have become addicted and smoke around 2 packs a week! and i remind you... these people are 13! another drug that is fairly common in my school and my previous school was alcohol. because alcohol is legal for people over the age of 18, it is made fairly easy access for high schooler and it has become a problem as people have parties on weekend and get very drunk to the point of vomiting, but also because they have started drinking during school hours by putting vodka in orange juice bottles. The last drug i have encountered was marajana. Although this is usualy less common in schools because it is harder to optain, it can still be a problem and can cause troubles if not used properly.
I have went to both a very private school and to a fairly public school, and although drugs are easier to find in public school, were around a third of the students who will get very drunk throughout the year, this doesnt mean you will be safe knowing you put your kid in a private school because they are still all there, just usually not a visible, and remeber, in every school there will be drugs and you cant just keep changing your kid from schools everytime you know there are drugs there because as fast as you run, the drugs will always be there, no, you must learn to trust your kid and teach him/her to say no and not to submit to peer presure. the easiest way to do this is to make alcohol and other drugs not seem like a very big deal, give him or her a sip once in a while, and like that they will learn to say no.
i think dat drugs are really bad for your health !! drugs make you have no self confidence and you are never yourself… soo even tho ive never taken drugs !! my advice is too any 1 to never ever take drugs … its not worth losing your family and fighting wit ur friends… [commercial link removed, per guidelines]
ok i have not done any "bad" drugs but i do drink and i do smoke the Mary Jane (marijuana), and i am a sophomore in high school. some people say that you will have your grads drop and you will have mood swings but no that is not the case with a lot of people, i know a bunch of people that do smoke the Mary Jane and they r the same all the time. i for one only smoke when there is no school or on the weekends with friends and i love it. and i am even thinkin bout experimenting with other drugs just to see ow it feels and what it does to me, any ways this is the time and age to do it.
@Special_K Hmm - not sure I agree. This may be the worst time to “do it,” as you say, because at least until your mid-20s your brain is still developing and drugs of abuse can affect it—including your memory, your coordination, your motivation, all the things that help you succeed in school and, well, in life. Drugs are not the healthiest way to make you feel good. Developing hobbies, getting together with friends, listening to music are just a few activities that can put you on a path to feeling good - not just from the artificial chemical release that drugs create in your brain, but from having accomplishing something you might be proud of down the road. Can you think of other stuff you like to do that doesn’t require altering your brain? Just a thought.
I'm a senior in high school at the moment, taking 3 ap courses and an in college class. I smoke marijuana daily since 10th grade. As of yet, the only harmful effect I've had was fluid build-up in my lungs. Which I stopped smoking for and took a couple weeks to clear up. Any other drug you can think of, I've done. Any snorted drug does terrible damage to your nose, I would wake up and take a shower only to bleed from my nose every day. Since then I've quit everything except marijuana and drinking. If you let drugs get out of hand, which I've seen happen, it can be very damaging no only to your body but your life in general. The key is to have and keep good friends that can let you know when they feel your habit is getting out of hand. And then not be to proud to get help if you can't quit on your own. I dont advocate the use of drugs, however I feel that simply saying that all drugs are bad for you is an extremist perception that instead of being helpful as intended, but harmful to the youth. People need to know what they can and can't do. Limits of will, mentality, and physical "strength" for lack of a better word, are easily tested by drugs. I'm nit saying either to go out and try to overdose on whatever drug you can get ahold of either, simply that if you try and enjoy a drug, find your limit, with sober supervision, slowly so that if you have the chance to do the drug again, you know how much to take. Again, I do not advocate drug use.
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