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ensues from the Monitoring the futurity Survey of eighth, 10th, and 12th grade close examiners in the United States showed declines in the use of marijuana, an club drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol from 2001 to 2002 according to HH This year's close attention surveyed more than 43,000 bookish mans in 394 schools across the nation about lifetime use, past year use, past month use, and daily use of mix with drugss alcohol, and cigarettes and smokeles tobacco. Marijuana use during the past year was at its lowest rate since 1995 among 10th graders and at its lowest rate since 1994 among eighth graders. Rates of LSD use were the lowest in the history of the observe among students in all three grades. Cigarette smoking continued the inclination of significant decline in all clusters that began after 1996. Steroid use remained stable from 2001 to 2002 and the merely significant increases in drug use were crack use on 10th graders and the use of sedatives on 12th graders. The survey also studied the abuse of prescription pain relievers for the first time and plant that nonmedical use of Oxycontin and Vicodin was reported in 40 percent and 96 percent of 12th graders, respectively. The Monitoring the yet to be Survey, conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and foundationed by the National Institute onward Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health, has monitored the illicit physic use and attitudes toward remedys of 12th graders since 1975 and of eighth and 10th graders since 1991 For more findings from the report, fare online to www.nida.nih.gov, and click in succession Monitoring the Future Study, 2002

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