Reports on a study on drug use among high school students commissioned by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Release of findings at a news conference by Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala; Statistics on high school seniors who used drugs within the past 12 months; ...
American teens plummeted during the pandemic and have remained at relatively low levels ever since, new government statistics show. ‘This trend in the reduction of substance use among teenagers is unprecedented,’ said Dr. Nora Volkow, who directs the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse (...
OBJECTIVE: To determine the association between health-risk behaviors and a history of sexual coercion among urban Chinese high school students. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study was performed among 109,754 high school students who participated in the 2005 Chinese Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Data were...
Descriptive statistics, including frequencies and percentages, were used for presenting tables. Chi-square analysis was used to present cross-tabulation between violence, drug addiction, and school-related variables. A p-value of ≤0.05 was considered to be significant. 3. Results Out of 440 high-...
This study reports test-retest reliability and validity information for an anonymous high school drug use questionnaire. All drug use items were highly reliable in testings on the same students eight weeks apart. Composite drug scores were also highly reliable. A nine-item lie scale gave virtually...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations. However, the classification rules are different and some products may fall into different risk categories. The focus of this review was on high-risk medical devices. According to the MDR, high-risk medical devices are “class III implantable devices...
Increasing the national high school graduation rate to 90% would create over 65,000 new jobs, boosting the economy by as much as $10.9 billion These statistics point to the fact that high school graduation rates have a national impact. Without systemwide reform, the economic future of the ent...
The most consistent positive predictors of substance use in emerging adulthood were male gender and previous drug use. Addiction concern was a consistent negative predictor. After controlling for baseline psychosocial variables, attending school and being married at the five-year follow-up were negative...
High school dropouts are more susceptible to other problems, such as substance and alcohol abuse and other health risks. A report by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health titled “Substance Use among 12th Grade Aged Youths by Dropout Status" demonstrate the consequences of dropping out of ...
Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA Jianbo Pan & Jiang Qian Contributions J.P., Y.H., M.A., M.S., and J.Q. performed the computational analyses; S.S., L.C., and D. Clark performed the sample preparation or/and mass...