Someone give me some stats.?

Question

i don't want your opinion..i want facts.


what percentenge of teens do drugs.

Answer 1

I don't know if there is anything newer out there, but I just found this online. It is from the 2003 Fairfax County Survey of Youth Risks and Assets from Washington Post Thursday, May 27, 2004; Page VA08

http://dpna.org/resources/models/statisticsaside.htm

There were 10,616 eighth-graders, 11,881 10th-graders and 10,494 seniors in Fairfax Country as of February. When looking closer at the survey data, 36 percent of eighth-graders have tried alcohol.

More troubling, 13 percent of eighth-graders use alcohol regularly. Among 10th-graders, 60 percent have tried alcohol; about 33 percent use alcohol regularly. For 12th-graders, 72 percent have tried alcohol; 46 percent use alcohol regularly.

Marijuana use is also of concern, as 5 percent of eighth-graders, 24 percent of 10th-graders and 41 percent of 12th-graders have tried marijuana. In terms of regular use, 3 percent of eighth-graders, 12 percent of 10th-graders and 21 percent of 12th-graders smoke marijuana.

Here is another link with a bar graph that is by age:

http://seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Features/6-09-08-BoomersUsingMoreDrugs.htm

Answer 2

Sorry, but I could only find facts about (teens and) tobacco:
Nearly 3000 teens take up the habit of smoking cigarettes every day in the U.S. alone.

Each year tobacco use kills over 430,000 American smokers. Worldwide, about 3 million people die from tobacco use.

Smoking kills more people than AIDS, alcohol, drug abuse, car and plane crashes, murders, suicides and fires combined.

More than 3,000 smokers start smoking everyday.

90% of smokers start before the age of 18.

90% of teens say they’ll stop smoking after high school but 67% are still smoking 5 years later.

53,000 non-smoking Americans are killed each year by exposure to secondhand smoke.

Nicotine is more addictive than heroin, cocaine and alcohol.

A "hit" of nicotine from a cigarette reaches the brain in seven seconds, twice as fast as heroin injected into the vein.

There are over 4,000 chemical compounds in cigarette smoke (over 200 are known poisons and over 40 are carcinogenic)

It only costs the tobacco industry 5¢ to make a pack of cigarettes.

Answer 3

Research shows that 50 percent of teens have tried pot, and 71 percent have friends who use pot. And, 82 percent of teens don’t think that pot is harmful.

thats just pot, hope that helps.