|
Charlie Parsons, President and CEO of DARE America, celebrates with President Bush and other national leaders the significant decline in youth drug use. A newly released Monitoring the Future study found that drug use among youth has decreased 25 % from 2001 to 2008.
President George W. Bush: "Since 2001, teenage use has declined by 25 percent. That means 900,000 fewer teens on drugs." "We are making progress. No question there's still work to do in America, but we are making progress. And one way to note the progress is this statistic."
U.S. students in 8th, 10th, and 12th grades are continuing to show a gradual decline in their use of certain drugs—amphetamines, methamphetamine, crystal methamphetamine, cocaine, and crack—according to the 34th annual national survey in the Monitoring the Future series conducted by scientists at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. |
