Grand Forks student survey finds slight increase in alcohol, tobacco, drug use
October 9, 2012 at 3:00 am in Grand Forks Herald
Overall drug use by Grand Forks students in grades seven to 12 increased slightly this year, the first time after more than a decade of decline. Twenty percent of these students reported drinking alcohol in the past 30 days, which is 4 percent more than in 2010. Continue Reading
I see these reports and i generally move on to the next story. I have three teenagers in the Grand Forks school system right now and they tell me that when these surveys come around, kids generally grandly exaggerate their drug/alcohol use. Either they make it sound like they are daily heroin users, or never even heard of beer. It’s a joke to them. So, I put very little stock in the accuracy of these reports, good or bad.
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