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Subject: [CIA-DRUGS] DEA quoting PhoenixHouse-87percent NY teen
"patients" in 1999 were for marijuana
Use among youth: The marijuana problem among youth is particularly
acute.
According to a survey conducted by Phoenix House, an organization that
runs
drug abuse treatment centers and conducts extensive research, marijuana
was
the drug of choice for 87 percent of teens entering treatment programs
in New
York during the first quarter of 1999. A 1996 national survey conducted
by
Phoenix House revealed that eighty-three percent of adolescents in
treatment
perceived, at one time or another, marijuana to be less dangerous than
other
illicit drugs, and 60 percent agreed that using marijuana made it easier
for
them to consume other drugs, including cocaine, methamphetamine, and
LSD.
Similar statistics were found by the 1999 Monitoring the Future study,
which
showed that marijuana is the illegal drug most frequently used by young
people. Among high school seniors, 49.7 percent reported using marijuana
at
least once in their lives. By comparison, that figure was 41.7 percent
for
seniors in 1995 and 32.6 percent in 1992. The 1999 NHSDA found that
nearly
one in 13 youths aged 12-17 were current users of marijuana in 1999 and
that
the prevalence of marijuana use among youth more than doubled from 1992
to
1999. The 1998 National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse study
indicates that adolescents are first exposed and try marijuana at a very
young age. According to the study, 50 percent of 13-year-olds reported
that
they could find and purchase marijuana, and 49 percent of teens surveyed
said
that they first tried marijuana at age 13 or younger.
How many of these started with beer? Or sugared breakfast cereal? Or
Ritilin?
How many of this 87 percent sought treatment, and how many were mandated
into
treatment by parents or courts? "Think your brain is screwed up now kid,
just
wait till we treat you."
Peace,
Preston
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