{"id":618,"date":"2008-10-16T21:49:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T20:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=618"},"modified":"2008-10-16T21:49:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T20:49:27","slug":"back-to-school-teen-survey-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2008\/10\/back-to-school-teen-survey-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to School Teen Survey &#8211; USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>In middle school 36% of students and 33% of teachers say the drug problem is getting worse compared to 10% of principals; in high school. 51% of students and 41% of teachers say it is getting worse compared with 15% of principals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>In high school. 50% of teachers and 48% of principals believe a team can smoke pot every weekend and still do well in school compared to 23% of teens.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>71% of high school students think more than half the students tried pot: only 27% of principals and 26% of teachers do.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>There is a dramatic difference between substance use by teens that attend religious services at least four times a month and those who attend less than once a month:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>Only 8% who attend religious services at least tour times a month smoked cigarettes compared to 22% who attend less than once a month.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>Only 13% who attended four times or more have smoked marijuana compared to 39% who attended less than once a month.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>Only 20% who attend four times or more say at least half their friends drink compared to 38% who attend less than once a month.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>Only 49% who attend four times or more know a friend or classmate who has used illegal drugs like acid, cocaine or heroin compared to 62% who attend less than once a month.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>45% who never smoked pot rely most on their parents\u2019 opinion compared to 21% who smoked it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>17% who never smoked pot hang out with friends after school compared to 1% who smoked pot.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In middle school 36% of students and 33% of teachers say the drug problem is getting worse compared to 10% of principals; in high school. 51% of students and 41% of teachers say it is getting worse compared with 15% of principals. In high school. 50% of teachers and 48% of principals believe a team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,10,19,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-use-effects-on-foetus","category-education-sector","category-usa","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","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=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}