Alcohol and other drugs

Previously, the education system in Manitoba used the ‘senior’ terminology but in the past couple of years the system has reverted back to the use of ‘grades’. [...] Table 1 below shows the percentage of males and females in each grade who have used alcohol, cannabis and other drugs in their lifetime and in the past year. [...] According to the Atlantic Alcohol Risk Continuum, 11.5% of grade 7 and 8 students and 17% of senior students meet the criteria of being high risk - alcohol dependency. [...] The scales are based on the Stages of Change theory (Prochaska, DiClemente & Norcorss, 1992) and allow participants to be rated on a continuum of risk which provides a better picture of the levels of harmful drug and alcohol use behaviour in the sample compared to a measure such as the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). [...] As nearly all the analysis in this report is expressed as a function of gender and grade, students who failed to disclose this information were also excluded from analysis as their 4 Due to potential ethical issues with school-based research, only 10 indicators of the AARC were asked of the senior grade students (compared to a total of 12) and for the ADRC we exchanged one question that may have p