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<text id=93TT1511>
<title>
Apr. 26, 1993: Wasted Youth
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Apr. 26, 1993 The Truth about Dinosaurs
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 16
SOCIETY
Wasted Youth
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<body>
<p>More students are starting to use drugs and sniff glue at an
early age
</p>
<p> The War on Drugs is not the kind of battle ever won outright,
but rather refought with every new generation, even every fresh
school class. A new survey of 50,000 American youngsters by
researchers at the University of Michigan indicates that drug
use seems to be steadily declining among high school students
but finds, disturbingly, that the opposite is true among
eighth-graders. The results indicate that in 1992, 9.5% of
eighth-graders (up from 9% in a similar survey in 1991) used
inhalants--glue, nitrous oxide, solvents and other such
volatile substances; 7.2% (up from 6.2%) smoked marijuana or
hashish, and 2.1% (up from 1.7%) of these 13-year-olds took LSD.
The diminution of drug taking among older teenagers (the
percentage of 12th-graders who had smoked marijuana, for
example, fell from 23.9% to 21.9%) suggested that while the
relentless antidrug line in schools and on TV may be having an
impact, many younger kids seem not to be getting the message.
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</body>
</article>
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