NEWSBRIEFS	TOPICS Drug Use Trends
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• September - October 1998
  • 1997 Household Survey Shows Increase in Youth Tobaccoand Marijuana Use
  • Fundraising Parties for AIDS Service Organizations Criticized by Gay Newspaper for "Endorsing" Drug Use Asscociated With RiskySexual Behavior
     
• May - June 1998
  • Alcohol and Drug Abuse Costs U.S. $246 billion, Says NIH Report
  • Drug Abuse by Senior Adults Is an Epidemic, Says CSAT/SAHMSA Report
  • Study Shows Effects of Substance Abuse on Violence by Psychiatric Patients
     
• February 1998
  • College Students Using Ritalin® to Study, Get High
  • Illicit Steroid Use Doubled Among Teenage Girl Athletes Since 1991
  • Caffeine May Contribute to SIDS

• January 1998
  • Drug Use By Eighth-Graders Declining, Use by Older Teenagers Holding, Says Monitoring the Future Survey
  • Drug-Related Emergency Room Visits Dropped 6% in 1996, Reports DAWN Survey
  • Eastern European Illicit Drug Producers Using Blood to Test Their Product, Spreading HIV, Says U.N.
     
• September - October 1997
  • Teenagers Who Feel Loved and Understood Engage in Less Risky Behavior, Says NIH Study
  • Slow Development in "Crack Babies" May Be Caused by Conditions of Urban Poverty, Says New Study
  • DOJ Says 14% of Violence-Related Injuries Treated in Emergency Rooms Related to Drugs and Alcohol -- Only 1% Drugs
     
• August 1997
  • Youth Drug Use Turns Down, Says Annual Household Survey
  • "Hip" ONDCP's Pulse Check Defines Drug Slang
     
• July 1997
  • Teen Experimentation With Cigar Smoking on the Rise, Says CDC Report

• March - April 1997
  • Parents and Teenagers Have Widely Different Perceptions on Drugs, according to a Washington Post-ABC News Poll
     
• January 1997
  • Teenage Use of Tobacco and Marijuana Still Rising, According to the Monitoring the Future Survey
     
• December 1996
  • Alcohol and Drug Behavior Among Welfare Recipients
     
• October 1996
  • Baby Boomers "Resigned" to Teen Drug Use, According to a National Survey
  • U.S. Military Drug Use Declining Dramatically, Navy Says It Is Essentially Drug-Free
  • Prescription Drug Abuse Rivals Illicit Drug Abuse, Some See Double Standard in Law Enforcement
  • "Substance-Free" Dormitories Rise in Popularity
  • Alcohol Use Strongly Associated with Illicit Drug Use

• September 1996
  • Teen Drug Use Still Rising According to the National Household Survey
  • Drunk Driving Deaths Increase in the U.S.
     
• Summer 1996
  • Smashing Pumpkins' Keyboardist Dies of Heroin Overdose in New York Amid Music Industry's Anti-Drug Drive

• May 1996
  • FDA Issues Warning on Herbal 'Ecstasy' Drugs
  • Office of National Drug Control Policy Releases Quarterly Pulse Check

• Summer 1996
  • Smashing Pumpkins' Keyboardist Dies of Heroin Overdose in New York Amid Music Industry's Anti-Drug Drive

• April 1996
  • Partnership for a Drug-Free America Reports on Teens' and Parents' Attitudes About Drugs

• January 1996
  • Monitoring the Future Survey Shows Increasing Teen Drug Use, Changing Attitudes About Drugs

• November 1995
  • National Household Survey Finds Drug Use Remained Steady
  • Drug Arrests Rising on College Campuses
  • Animal Doping Common at Youth Livestock Competitions

• December 1994
  • PRIDE Finds Drug Use Among Schoolchildren Rising

• November 1994
  • Mixed News on Marijuana Use

• July 1993
  • Illicit Drug Use Declines Except in Those 35 and Older
  • Discovery of Cross Border Drug Tunnel in Mexico May Be Just the First
  • Alcohol, Tobacco Still Main Gateway Drugs for Adolescents
  • New York Assembly Hears Testimony Critical of Rockefeller Laws

• March 1993
  • Alcohol, Cigarette Use Down, Marijuana Use Unchanged in D.C. Fourth-Graders

• February 1993
  • New Breed of Drug Barons Shun Violence, Flamboyant Lifestyle