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Teens and Drugs — Get the Facts
  • In the next 24 hours, 15,006 American teens will use drugs for the first time.(Source: Teen Help)

  • Since 1992, drug use by 12- to 17-year-olds has doubled. (Source: Department of Health and Human Services.)

  • Today, in a classroom of 25 students, odds are that three of them will be drug users. (Source: Department of Health and Human Services.)

  • A majority of teens between the ages of 15 and 17 have been to a party in the last six months where marijuana was available. (Source: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University)

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