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Prevalence: According to Monitoring the Future 1975–2007, the annual prevalence of 12th grade students using illicit drugs was 36%. Tenth grade students’ prevalence was 28% and 8th graders was 13%. With respect to the use of licit drugs (alcohol and tobacco), 26% of 12th grade students, 22% of 10th graders, and 10% of 8th grade students reported heavy alcohol drinking in the past 2 weeks; this is defined as five alcoholic drinks in a row. The good news is that there appears to be a decline in current smoking among high school students between 1996 and 1997 and 2007. For example, current smoking prevalence in 12th grade students declined from 37% in 1997 to 22% in 2007. Risk factors for adolescent substance abuse are delineated in Table 1, and protective factors against adolescent substance abuse are noted in Table 2.
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Goldstein, M.A. (2011). Adolescent Substance Abuse. In: Goldstein, M. (eds) The MassGeneral Hospital for Children Adolescent Medicine Handbook. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6845-6_19
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