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Newfoundland and Labrador student drug use survey 2007

15 Nov 2007

The results of the 2007 • In 2007, 52% of students reported using survey, along with the previous three alcohol; 29.5% of students reported surveys (1996, 1998, 2003), will be used to using cannabis; and 16.9% of students determine prevalence and trends in student reported using tobacco at least once in drug use. [...] The survey was administered in • The prevalence of cocaine use was 5.3% Newfoundland and Labrador in the spring of in 2007 compared with 3.7% in 2003. [...] Summary Report 1 FINDINGS IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR Table 1. Any substance use in the year before the • In 2007, 41.4% of students reported they survey among Newfoundland and Labrador had not used alcohol, cigarettes or any students in grades, 7, 9 and Levels I & III, as other drugs in the twelve months prior to percentages, 2007 the survey. [...] The Atlantic Alcohol Risk Continuum Atlantic Alcohol Risk Continuum (AARC) and the Atlantic Drug Risk Continuum (ADRC) are population health In 2007, 5% of Newfoundland and Labrador tools that were developed to monitor the students in grade 7 and 20% of students in overall level of risk associated with grades 9, 10 and 12 were on the high end of substance use in the general adolescent the Atlantic [...] Prince Edward Island have lower rates of • In 2007, the substances most commonly cannabis compared to Nova Scotia and used by students in grades 7, 9, 10 and Newfoundland and Labrador 12 in the Atlantic provinces were alcohol • In 2007, Nova Scotia had the highest (50.9%), cannabis (29.3%) and rates of the use of psilocybin or cigarettes (15.0%).
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Authors

Ryan, Renée

Pages
33
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Canada

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