Emily Hamer's List: Drugs In Schools

• 44 percent of high schoolers saying they know a fellow student who sells drugs at their school.
• Half of respondents knew of a place near their school where kids could go to drink and get high during the school day,

• Nearly half of teens who have seen such pictures perceived that the teens in the photos "are having a good time."

  Kids who had seen such photos were three to four times more likely to have used marijuana, alcohol or tobacco compared to kids who had not viewed this type of picture.
• parental expectations and found both to play a major role in teens' drug use.
• Children who are left home alone overnight are about twice as likely to have used alcohol or marijuana and three times as likely to have used tobacco, compared to kids who are not left home alone.
• Teens who believe their parents would not be "extremely upset" to know that their child was using drugs were less likely to engage in this type of behavior

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• teen drug use, specifically the use of marijuana, alcohol, and ecstasy, has increased since 2008, according to a survey by The Partnership at Drugfree.org and the MetLife Foundation.
• 39 percent of high school students had drunk alcohol in the past month, 10 percent had used ecstasy in the past year, and 38 percent had used marijuana in the past year.
• Steve Pasierb, president of The Partnership at Drugfree.org,
• budget cuts to drug awareness programs could be to blame for the turnaround.
• support for drug education and prevention programs has been cut drastically due to budgetary pressures,"
• "A heavier burden is placed squarely on the shoulders of parents, who need to take an active role in preventing substance abuse in their families."
• 22 percent of public high school students were offered, sold, or given drugs at school.
• but just 50 percent of students said regular marijuana use was dangerous, and 45 percent said they did not see a "great risk" in drinking five or more drinks per day.

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• • Discusses how this is happening DURING school. includes surveys, studies, etc.
• nearly one in five of their classmates drink, use drugs and smoke during the school day, and more than a third said it is fairly easy to do so without getting caught.
• private schools
• National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
• For the sixth consecutive year, 60 percent or more of teens in the survey reported that drugs are used, kept or sold at schools and 52 percent said there's a place on or near school grounds where students go during the day to use drugs, drink or smoke cigarettes.
• Columbia University,
• The results are national.
• said psychotherapist Elizabeth Jorgensen,
• • kids no longer understand that doing drugs can jeopardize their future according to psychotherapist Elizabeth Jorgensen
• CASA report
• 46 percent
• 24 percent in private
• 61 percent of public high school
• 54 percent in private
• • schools are where kids find access to drugs
• decriminalizing marijuana makes them think it's legal."
• • people think it's legal

  • Marijuana being legalized for medical use, makes marijuana seem safe for recreational use.
• marijuana was decriminalized for medical use,
• Housatonic Valley Coalition Against Drug Abuse

• If parents express strong opposition of drug or alcohol use, teens are less likely to use them, the study found.

   
• "We're not just talking about something petty. We had a kid overdose yesterday but they revived him. We're talking about saving people's lives,'' she said.
• 75 percent of teens said that seeing pictures on social network site of kids partying encourages other teens to want to party like that.

  • Brings up that social networking encourages people to drink and party.
• Before social networking, kids had to be at the party to be part of the scene.

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