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- Teens of different ethnic groups use alcohol, marijuana and cigarettes for different reasons and educators should use different strategies to keep them clean, according to a new study that was funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The study is published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
Researchers analyzed roughly 5,500 responses from seventh- and eighth-graders in Southern California to surveys that were distributed by researchers from the RAND Corporation. The overall rates of substance use were similar to findings from other studies – about 22 percent had tried alcohol, including about 9 percent who drank in the previous month. Ten percent had tried cigarettes, including 2.6 percent in the previous month. Seven percent had tried marijuana, including 3.2 percent in the month just before the survey.
