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Tuesday, 04 September 2012 22:08
Nearly 9 out of 10 (86 percent) of American high-school students say that some classmates are drugging, drinking and smoking during the school day, according to the National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XVII: Teens, the 17th annual back-to-school survey conducted by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASAColumbiaTM). High school students say that about 17 percent of their classmates (2.8 million teens) drug, drink and smoke during the school day.The CASAColumbia teen survey revealed that 44 percent of high schoolers know a student who sells drugs at their school. Asked what drugs students sell on school grounds, 91 percent said marijuana; 24 percent said prescription drugs; nine percent said cocaine; and seven percent said ecstasy.
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