Positive trends in the past several years include reduced use of inhalants and less use of cocaine, especially crack cocaine.
Past-year inhalant use by younger teens continued a downward trend in 2013, with 5.2 percent of 8th graders and 3.5 percent of 10th graders reporting use. Five-year trends of past-year cocaine use across all grades showed a drop as well. Other drugs, such as heroin, methamphetamine, ecstasy (MDMA) and hallucinogens, are holding fairly steady.
Courtesy National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Health
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