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State Youth Survey Finds Drop In Substance Abuse
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Published: November 17, 2008
TALLAHASSEE - The annual Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey shows continuing declines in binge drinking, smoking - both tobacco and marijuana - and most other drug use.
The survey of more than 91,000 middle and high school students, though, shows a continuing trend of prescription drug abuse.
Four and half percent of high school seniors said they abused prescription pain killers in the past 30 days - more than any other drug except marijuana.
Seventy-four percent of seniors reported using alcohol, 40 percent cigarettes and 38 percent marijuana at least once in their lifetimes - all slightly down from last year.
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