Nova Scotia student drug use 2007

Acknowledgements We thank the staff of the Addictions Services, Mental Health Services, and the Departments of Education of the Atlantic provinces, and the research staff involved in this project, for their dedication and assistance. [...] Atlantic Drug Risk Continuum ■ In 2007, 4% of students in grade 7 reported they had experienced one or more of 8 drug problem indicators during the course of the year, and fall on the High risk end of the Atlantic Drug Risk Continuum. [...] The 2007 survey adolescent students in Ontario and in the United States.5,6 The 2007 survey revealed an increase in the prevalence of use of MDMA (ecstasy), and no also showed that 5% of Nova Scotia students used cannabis daily in the change in the prevalence of use of alcohol and 7 other substances. [...] The 2007 survey showed that 19% of students had ridden with enactment of the Nova Scotia Smoke-free Places Act in 2002.3 an alcohol-driver, and 26% had ridden with a cannabis-driver, during the In 2007, 52% of adolescent students in Nova Scotia consumed alcohol course of the year. [...] The 2007 survey revealed that, except for found to be at the High Risk end of alcohol use and 13% of students were MDMA, the rates of adolescents’ use of the various substances in the four found to be at the High Risk end of cannabis use.