The percentage of the teenagers who say that they see high schools frequently having problems of drug augmented 44 for hundred - 61 for one hundred since 2002, and the percentage in the intermediate schools augmented 19 for hundred - 31 for one hundred, according to the inquiry which will be published on Thursday by the University of Columbia National Center one Addiction and Substance Abuses.
And such activity am not easily hidden: study showed that eight-10 secondary school students and 44 for hundred secondary school students-east attended for the use of illicit drugs, to deal or with possession, or to have seen the pupils of top or intoxicated on the school places.
Thirty-one for one hundred were witnesses of this activity at least one time a week.
According to study, 17 for hundred pupils of the secondary say that they could buy some marihuana somewhere on their campus in one hour, while 37 for one hundred say that they could make it in one day, the national reports New CBS corresponding Byron Pitts.
About 13 for hundred teenagers declared to have tried the marihuana, and 4 for one hundred declared to have consumed in the course of the past month. (Results of opinion poll are often underestimated because the guarantors hesitate to accept the usage of drugs for example.)
The group invites the establishments where the usage of illicit drugs is so spread as "drug infested," and popular who says that the children seeing these schools frequently are five and a half times as likely to use drugs as the teenagers even in the drug free benches.
"These children who is considered among the most popular were likely to get drunk at least one time a month, likely to use medicaments, likely to smoke some marihuana», Joseph Califano, president of the Centre, and president, declared to New CBS EARLY SHOW anchor Harry Smith. "The world of these children lives in, cool that' s. We must change it."
"It became a common experience for the teenagers, what their preoccupation on this subject fell", declared Califano.
And with the usage of drugs become included into the experience of the high school, despair and denial are more and more to characterise the attitude of the parents.
Parents questioned in opinion poll, only 11 for one hundred said medicaments are bigger worry of their child. Questioned to know how they would feel if their children smoked of the pot, 48 for hundred parents said that they were more preoccupied by sex, 52 for one hundred about in shop window, and 82 for one hundred their children, behaviour in a state of intoxication.
Califano, ancient secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, recommends that the parents withdraw their children except the schools where danger of medicaments am high.
«The parents refuse to send their children to the school when the asbestos is there. Califano declared Barry Bagnato to corresponding CBS New. «They refuse to send their children to the school if it was infested with rats.
"They have to begin saying: «I am not going to let this situation continue where my children have to go to a school where medicaments are used, kept and sold, or that they are going to see its schoolmates who are brought up or drink", declared Califano.
The inquiry also found:
About six persons on 10 parents of teenagers in schools with a problem of drug say that they believe objective to make that drugs in school am free unrealistic.
Most parents (86 for one hundred) say potable is a lot of the experience of the secondary school, but only 29 for one hundred think that their own will the teenagers make a lot to drink to the secondary school.
The students who are considered popular were more likely to use some drug, to drink or to smoke than the students who are not considered as popular.
The inquiry found 24 for hundred teenagers conscript drugs as their first preoccupation, in fall of 32 for one one hundred which registered it as a major preoccupation in 1995.
The investigation of 1063 teenagers from 12 to 17 years old and 550 parents was led from April 2nd till May, 13 and includes a margin of error of more or less 3 points of percentage for teenagers' sample and 4 points of percentage for the parents.
