Survey: 17% of High Schoolers Drink, Smoke, Use Drugs During School Day

Survey: 17% of high schoolers drink, smoke, use drugs during school day

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The survey suggests there's been a big jump in drug use in private schools. In 2011, 36% of private school students said their school was “drug-infected.” But in the past year, that figure jumped to 54%. It was the first time in the history of the …
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Driver Aaron Fike reinstated; heroin use spurred NASCAR's drug-testing policy

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Driver Aaron Fike was reinstated Tuesday by NASCAR, five years after he was arrested on heroin charges. It was Fike's admission of using heroin on the days he raced that brought into question NASCAR's previous suspicion-based drug-testing policy.
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Yale study: Marijuana may really be gateway drug

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The Yale study, which appears online in the Journal of Adolescent Health, showed that alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana were associated with an increased likelihood of prescription drug abuse in men 18 to 25. In women of that age, only marijuana use …
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Fall River's synthetic drug ordinance gets a push as gov. signs anti

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The state law includes only an updated list of chemicals commonly used to get high from bath salts, focusing primarily on diverting prescription drugs that can cause drug abuse and addiction, Patrick noted. The federal legislation passed in July …
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