Youths' higher use of marijuana
Great news. According to a recent federal report, the percentage of youths ages 12 to 17 who smoke, drink, or abuse most drugs has fallen since 2002. Tobacco use has dropped from 15.2 to 7 percent. Those who reported having had a drink within the previous month decreased from 17.6 to 11.5 percent. Even illicit painkiller use has declined from 3.2 to 1.9 percent, according to a 2014 annual survey of around 67,500 teens by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
But marijuana use is edging upward, from 6.2 percent in 2002 to 8.4 percent in 2014. Experts believe adults in these youths' lives who may have indulged and suffered no ill effects may be partly to blame.
Yet, the drug kids are smoking today is not your father's marijuana.
Recently, we saw a 17-year-old who'd been coming to our office for over a decade. Whiskers now...
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