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Sobering statistics presented at drug forum
#8600068 - 07/06/08 08:19 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Many sobering stats were shared at the Lumpkin County Meth Task Force community drug forum last Tuesday. But the numbers that seemed to carry the most weight with audience members came, not from the officials on hand, but from 945 local students that weren't even in attendance.
During the 2007-2008 school year, a sample of 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th graders anonymously participated in a Georgia Student Heath Survey which gauged their everyday associations with alcohol and drugs.
Superintendent Dewey Moye took to the podium in the Lumpkin County High School auditorium and reported that, of the 945 local students surveyed, 130, or 14 percent, said that they had used alcohol within the past 30 days.
A total of 125 (13 percent) admitted to using some form of tobacco within that same time period, while 61 said they had used marijuana.
* A total of 102 students (11 percent) said that they had ridden in a car with a driver that had been drinking alcohol, while 20 stated that they had actually driven their vehicle while drinking in the last 30 days.
“I think it's pretty accurate,” said Moye. “When you look at the number I think it needs to be looked at for the community.”
Not all of these numbers were grim, however.
The survey revealed that 661, or 70 percent, of the students had friends that would disapprove if they were to ever smoke marijuana, while 417 (44 percent) had friends that would frown upon alcohol use as well.
Moye advised the crowd that parental involvement is the key to raising a drug-free child.
“Know where your children are at,” he said. “Know who their friends are. Most of the kids that are using marijuana use it at their friend's house.”
Moye was one of six speakers at the two-hour forum which was conducted by Superior Court Judge Lynn Alderman.
Fellow Superior Court Judge David Barrett began the proceedings by detailing his experiences with the drug court treatment program, a 24-month rehabilitation program that has seen a total of 72 graduates.
Of those graduates, only six have been arrested again. However, failure to graduate usually results in an opposite outcome, reported Barrett.
“If you dont graduate from the drug program you have an 89 percent chance of being arrested in three years,” he said.
Juvenile Judge David Turk discussed the new Family Drug Treatment Court. This non-profit program was formed with the intention of treating not only those battling addiction, but the family members caught up in that battle.
“Since it is a family drug court were going to be treating the moms, the dads, the children, the grandparents,” said Turk.
Sheriff Mark McClure estimated that 90 percent of the population of his Lumpkin County Detention Center winds up there because of some kind of substance abuse problem.
“The major crimes have something to do with substance abuse,” he said. “So it would be common sense that the more we work on substance abuse the more we can cut down on crimes.”
Meth Task Force founder Sharon Lee wrapped up the forum by warning audience members of approaching drug trends. She said that the most pressing matter would appear to be a rise in abuse of prescription medications.
“We see a lot of mixing Oxycontin and Zanax, that's a rise we see coming up,” she said.
For more information on the Meth Task Force log onto www.anti-meth.org or call 706-969-0397.
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Re: Sobering statistics presented at drug forum [Re: Bridgeburner]
#8600478 - 07/06/08 11:32 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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b0red5tiff said:
14 percent, said that they had used alcohol within the past 30 days.
A total of 125 (13 percent) admitted to using some form of tobacco within that same time period, while 61 said they had used marijuana.
I'm just glad that our drug laws are keeping dangerous marijuana off of the streets and out of the hands of our children!
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Re: Sobering statistics presented at drug forum [Re: Plok]
#8601410 - 07/06/08 04:59 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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“We see a lot of mixing Oxycontin and Zanax, that's a rise we see coming up,”
and its only going to increase teach them to smoke weed instead if u cared at all about their health
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Re: Sobering statistics presented at drug forum [Re: Plok]
#8601411 - 07/06/08 05:00 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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“Know where your children are at,” he said. “Know who their friends are. Most of the kids that are using marijuana use it at their friend's house.”
So kids can't go over to their friend's houses without being constantly questioned and nagged about what they're doing over there?
Nearly every kid that has friends is going to go over to their houses. This doesn't mean they're going to smoke weed. They probably will, though! 61 out of 985...yeah, right. More like 300+.
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Re: Sobering statistics presented at drug forum [Re: tyler_0_durden]
#8601501 - 07/06/08 05:19 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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“We see a lot of mixing Oxycontin and Zanax, that's a rise we see coming up,”
if they were real experts they'd know the codenames, like Foxycontin and Zany Zanax!
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