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National Drug Control Strategy
Update 2003
February 2003
Table 11. Percentage of High School Students Who Used Selected Illicit Drugs by Sex, Race/Ethnicity, and Grade, Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 1990–2001
|
Drug
Use Behavior and Year
|
Sex
|
Race/Ethnicity
|
Grade
Level
|
All
Groups
|
|
Male
|
Female
|
White,
non- Hispanic
|
Black,
non-Hispanic
|
Hispanic
|
9th
|
10th
|
11th
|
12th
|
|
Lifetime marijuana |
| 1990
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
20.6
|
27.9
|
34.7
|
42.2
|
31.4
|
|
1991 |
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
|
|
—
|
31.0
|
|
1993 |
36.8
|
28.6
|
32.7
|
33.6
|
35.4
|
24.4
|
28.8
|
36.0
|
40.8
|
32.8
|
|
1995 |
46.2
|
39.4
|
40.5
|
47.2
|
49.2
|
33.8
|
41.4
|
45.8
|
47.0
|
42.4
|
|
1997 |
50.7
|
42.9
|
45.4
|
52.2
|
49.5
|
38.8
|
45.9
|
50.3
|
52.4
|
47.1
|
|
1999 |
51.0
|
43.4
|
45.9
|
48.6
|
51.0
|
34.8
|
49.1
|
49.7
|
58.4
|
47.2
|
|
2001 |
46.5
|
38.4
|
42.8
|
40.2
|
44.7
|
32.7
|
41.7
|
47.2
|
51.5
|
42.4
|
| Current
marijuana1 |
|
1990 |
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
9.5
|
13.5
|
13.9
|
18.5
|
13.9
|
|
1991 |
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
15.0
|
|
1993 |
20.6
|
14.6
|
17.3
|
18.6
|
19.4
|
13.2
|
16.5
|
18.4
|
22.0
|
17.7
|
|
1995 |
28.4
|
22.0
|
24.6
|
28.6
|
27.8
|
20.9
|
25.6
|
27.6
|
26.2
|
25.3
|
|
1997 |
30.2
|
21.4
|
25.0
|
28.2
|
28.6
|
23.6
|
25.0
|
29.3
|
26.6
|
26.2
|
|
1999 |
30.8
|
22.6
|
26.4
|
26.4
|
28.2
|
21.7
|
27.8
|
26.7
|
31.5
|
26.7
|
|
2001 |
27.9
|
20.0
|
24.4
|
21.8
|
24.6
|
19.4
|
24.8
|
25.8
|
26.9
|
23.9
|
|
Lifetime cocaine use2
|
|
1990 |
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
3.6
|
5.8
|
7.6
|
9.3
|
6.6
|
|
1991 |
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
6.0
|
|
1993 |
5.5
|
4.2
|
4.6
|
1.6
|
11.3
|
4.2
|
3.7
|
5.1
|
6.1
|
4.9
|
|
1995 |
8.8
|
5.0
|
6.5
|
2.0
|
16.0
|
5.7
|
7.5
|
7.2
|
7.4
|
7.0
|
|
1997 |
9.1
|
7.2
|
8.0
|
1.9
|
14.4
|
6.7
|
7.5
|
9.1
|
9.2
|
8.2
|
|
1999 |
10.7
|
8.4
|
9.9
|
2.2
|
15.3
|
5.8
|
9.9
|
9.9
|
13.7
|
9.5
|
|
2001 |
10.3
|
8.4
|
9.9
|
2.1
|
14.7
|
7.2
|
8.6
|
10.4
|
12.1
|
9.4
|
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Current cocaine use1
|
|
1990 |
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
1.0
|
2.4
|
2.5
|
2.3
|
2.1
|
|
1991 |
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
2.0
|
|
1993 |
2.3
|
1.4
|
1.6
|
1.0
|
4.6
|
1.6
|
1.4
|
2.1
|
2.1
|
1.9
|
|
1995 |
4.3
|
1.8
|
2.6
|
1.3
|
7.5
|
3.1
|
2.5
|
3.6
|
3.1
|
3.1
|
|
1997 |
4.0
|
2.4
|
3.1
|
0.7
|
6.2
|
3.9
|
2.6
|
3.1
|
3.5
|
3.3
|
|
1999 |
5.2
|
2.9
|
4.1
|
1.1
|
6.7
|
3.4
|
3.7
|
4.5
|
4.8
|
4.0
|
|
2001 |
4.7
|
3.7
|
4.2
|
1.3
|
7.1
|
3.7
|
4.2
|
4.4
|
4.5
|
4.2
|
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Lifetime use of illegal steroids |
|
1990 |
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
1991 |
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
3.0
|
|
1993 |
3.1
|
1.2
|
1.9
|
2.4
|
3.0
|
2.1
|
2.0
|
2.2
|
2.3
|
2.2
|
|
1995 |
4.9
|
2.4
|
3.8
|
1.6
|
4.7
|
4.1
|
3.6
|
3.9
|
2.9
|
3.7
|
|
1997 |
4.1
|
2.0
|
3.1
|
1.5
|
3.4
|
4.3
|
3.0
|
2.7
|
2.5
|
3.1
|
|
1999 |
5.2
|
2.2
|
4.1
|
2.2
|
4.1
|
4.7
|
3.6
|
3.0
|
3.3
|
3.7
|
|
2001 |
6.0
|
3.9
|
5.3
|
3.2
|
4.2
|
5.8
|
4.9
|
4.3
|
4.3
|
5.0
|
|
Lifetime injected drug use |
|
1990 |
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
1991 |
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
1993 |
1.9
|
0.8
|
1.3
|
0.9
|
1.5
|
1.4
|
1.4
|
1.3
|
1.2
|
1.4
|
|
1995 |
3.0
|
1.0
|
2.0
|
1.1
|
2.2
|
2.8
|
2.2
|
1.7
|
1.6
|
2.0
|
|
1997 |
2.6
|
1.5
|
1.8
|
1.0
|
2.2
|
3.0
|
2.5
|
1.6
|
1.5
|
2.1
|
|
1999 |
2.8
|
0.7
|
1.6
|
0.9
|
1.8
|
1.6
|
1.2
|
2.0
|
2.3
|
1.8
|
|
2001 |
3.1
|
1.6
|
2.4
|
1.6
|
2.5
|
2.5
|
2.6
|
1.9
|
2.1
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2.3
|
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Data not available.
1Used
one or more times during the past 30 days.
2Ever
tried any form of cocaine, including powder, crack, or freebase.
Sources: “Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drug Use Among High School Students—United
States,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 40 (45) (1990):
776–84; 41 (37) (1991): 698–703; “Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance—United
States 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2001,” Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public
Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services. |
Last Updated: May 7, 2003
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