1/21/14 - The Livingston Community Prevention Project is teaming up with local schools to help get the message to teens that most of their peers do not abuse drugs, tobacco, and alcohol. The Michigan Profile for Healthy Youth survey on drugs was administered to 7th, 9th, and 11th grade students anonymously in every school district in the county in 2012. It revealed that among the middle schoolers tested, 99% have never used marijuana and 94% had never used alcohol. Among the high schoolers tested, for the month leading up to the survey, 77% had not used alcohol, 84% had not smoked marijuana, and 89% had not smoked cigarettes. The percentage of high school students who had ever tried alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, or heroin also decreased significantly county-wide from 2009. The LCPP plans to run its new MOST Campaign from January 27th to the end of the school year, focusing on different substances every few weeks to tell students that fitting in with peers does not require drugs, alcohol, or tobacco. The survey also revealed attitudes the students have about drugs, including that middle schools consider regular marijuana use to be more dangerous than alcohol use, but that attitude is reversed among high school students. (TD)
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