Findings from the 1993 Monitoring the Future Survey, an annual survey of drug use among adolescents, show that illicit drug use is consistently up for 8th, 10th and 12th graders for most of the drugs measured. These findings are more than a warning signal. Drugs are deadly.
Drugs are illegal.
Drugs will destroy your life. He announced he will convene a national meeting of experts in the field of prevention and drug education for recommendations on confronting youth drug abuse. According to the survey, sponsored annually since 1975 by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, there was an increase in the percentage of high school seniors who had used an illicit drug at least once by the time they reached their senior year of high school. The 1993 increase reverses a downward trend of drug use by 12th graders that began in 1981. Lifetime prevalence of any illicit drug use increased from 40.7 percent in 1992 to 42.9 percent in 1993, still far below the peak level of 65.6 percent in 1981.