Battle Creek Enquirer
Michigan teens are following the national trend of increasing pot, alcohol and prescription drug abuse, but Calhoun County’s abuse rates won’t be clear until late summer, officials said today.
The Associated Press reported that the Partnership for a Drug-Free America released a study on Monday showing teen alcohol use rose to 39 percent in 2009 from 35 percent in 2008 and marijuana use jumped to 25 percent from 19 percent. Before last year, those statistics had been on a steady decline since 1998.
Monitoring the Future, a survey of teen drug use sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan, showed Michigan’s teens followed those trends, according Suzanne Horsfall, executive director of the Michigan Substance Abuse Council of Calhoun County. In a release, Horsfall said she found troubling the increasing acceptance of drug use, which climbed about 4 percentage points from 2008 to 2009.
Horsfall said most local schools are participating in a Michigan Department of Education survey on drug abuse, which was untrue in past years, and that more detailed local data, previously unavailable, should be ready by late summer.
The Associated Press reported that the Partnership for a Drug-Free America released a study on Monday showing teen alcohol use rose to 39 percent in 2009 from 35 percent in 2008 and marijuana use jumped to 25 percent from 19 percent. Before last year, those statistics had been on a steady decline since 1998.
Monitoring the Future, a survey of teen drug use sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan, showed Michigan’s teens followed those trends, according Suzanne Horsfall, executive director of the Michigan Substance Abuse Council of Calhoun County. In a release, Horsfall said she found troubling the increasing acceptance of drug use, which climbed about 4 percentage points from 2008 to 2009.
Horsfall said most local schools are participating in a Michigan Department of Education survey on drug abuse, which was untrue in past years, and that more detailed local data, previously unavailable, should be ready by late summer.
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