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This survey aims to identify the situations, individual and family characteristics, and social factors that are associated with teen drug abuse and addiction. Its primary purpose is to track attitudes of teens and those, like parents, who have the greatest influence on whether teens will smoke, drink, get drunk, use illegal drugs, or abuse prescription drugs.

Only about 1 in 10 people with addiction involving alcohol or drugs other than nicotine receive any form of treatment.

This report found that 58% of teens reported having dinner with their families at least 5 times a week. Compared to teens who had frequent family dinners (5 to 7 per week), those who had infrequent family dinners (2 or fewer) are almost 4 times likelier to have used tobacco; more than twice as likely to have used alcohol; 2.5 times likelier to have used marijuana; and almost 4 times likelier to have said they expected to try drugs in the future.

This survey aims to identify the situations, individual and family characteristics, and social factors that are associated with teen drug abuse and addiction. Its primary purpose is to track attitudes of teens and those, like parents, who have the greatest influence on whether teens will smoke, drink, get drunk, use illegal drugs or abuse prescription drugs.

Teen substance use and addiction is the origin of the largest preventable and most costly public health problem in America today.

According to this report, 60% of teens reported having dinner with their families at least 5 times a week. Compared to teens who had frequent family dinners (5 to 7 per week), those who had infrequent family dinners (2 or fewer) were more than twice as likely to say that they expected to try drugs in the future.

27% of public school students ages 12 to 17 said that their school was both gang- and drug-infected (drugs are used, kept or sold on school grounds).

Of the 2.3 million inmates crowding our nation's prisons and jails, 1.5 million met the DSM-IV medical criteria for substance abuse or addiction.

This report found that 59% of teens (and 62% of their parents) reported having dinner with their families at least 5 times a week. Compared to teens who had frequent family dinners (5 or more per week), those who had infrequent family dinners (2 or fewer) were twice as likely to have used tobacco or marijuana; more than 1.5 times likelier to have used alcohol; and twice as likely to have expected to try drugs in the future.

Compared to teens who had not seen a parent drunk, those who had were more than twice as likely to get drunk in a typical month, and 3 times likelier to have used marijuana and smoked cigarettes.
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