{"id":3025,"date":"2009-07-24T14:08:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T13:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2009-07-24T14:08:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T13:08:55","slug":"more-teens-see-marijuana-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/more-teens-see-marijuana-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"More Teens See Marijuana Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2003 Teens Partnership Attitude Tracking Study (PATS), released by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA), says that more teens are recognizing the risks of marijuana and, as a result, may be less likely to start using the drug, according to a Feb. 25 news release from the Office of National Drug Control Policy.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found an increase in the number of teens who have seen or heard anti-drug advertisements since the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign began in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, 52 percent of teens were exposed to anti-drug ads in 2003, compared with 32 percent in 1998. Furthermore, one in three teens in 2003 said they &#8220;learned a lot&#8221; about the risks of drugs from the ads, compared with one in five in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PATS survey reinforces earlier reports that showed an 11-percent drop in youth drug use &#8230; This research shows many understand the risks associated with marijuana use,&#8221; said John Walters, director of the ONDCP. &#8220;We hope this growing awareness will keep teens from using marijuana themselves and encourage them to take action when a friend is using.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found that more teens are aware of the potential risks of using marijuana, such as getting in trouble with the law, losing their driver&#8217;s license, or not getting into a good college.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: right;\">Source:Partnership for a Drug-Free America Tracking Study 2003<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2003 Teens Partnership Attitude Tracking Study (PATS), released by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA), says that more teens are recognizing the risks of marijuana and, as a result, may be less likely to start using the drug, according to a Feb. 25 news release from the Office of National Drug Control Policy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prevention-research","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}