NCJ Number
152392
Date Published
1994
Length
28 pages
Annotation
This press release summarizes the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research's 20th national survey of juvenile drug use, which revealed that illicit drug use among secondary school students continued to increase in 1994.
Abstract
The increase, which began at least 3 years ago for eighth graders and 2 years ago for older students, has been particularly pronounced in the case of marijuana. The use of LSD, other hallucinogens taken as a group, inhalants, stimulants, barbiturates, and cocaine and crack also increased. Shifts were also revealed in youths' attitudes toward drugs, with a steadily and accelerating decline in the perceived risk of marijuana and in peer disapproval. Alcohol use had no decline at any grade level, although 8th, 10th, and 12th graders all had some upward drift in current drinking, binge drinking, and drunkenness. Tables and figures