Research Exercise #1

Sample Research Exercise #1

Joshua Zumbro
English 1050
Topic: Teen Drug Abuse

Topic 2 – Drugs In Our Schools

Works Cited – Anonymous. “Drug dealing occurs at 60% of schools.”Juvenile Justice Digest. Sep 17, 2001. Vol. 29, Iss. 17; pg. 2, 1 pgs

Summary
According to the “Juvenile Justice Digest” in their artice “Drug dealing occurs at 60% of schools,” 9.5 million high school students, and 5 million middle school students attend schools where illegal drugs are used and easily accessible (JJD pg2). The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse based theses facts and statistics off six years of investigation and discussions with students as well as parents and faculty. CASA, a program out of Columbia University, found that under these sort of conditions students are 3 times more likely to participate in those illegal activities, and upon graduation from high school 81% of students will have used alcohol, 47% Marijuana, and 24% other harder drugs (JJD pg2). The White House’s office of drug control policy hopes that these facts put school police on a harder lookout.

Response
Mainstream drugs are now on the decline since this article was published. Even though alcohol is still a large problem among middle school and high school children the new epidemic is prescription pills. So even though most kids are no longer interested in the illegal drugs, new addictions have come up with generation RX, which it’s now being referred to as.

Additional Ideas
I also would like to look at the increasing use of alcohol abuse among teens. I also would like to find out the reasons and environment that the kids who are abusing drugs and alcohol live in. I also would like to find out what schools and parents are doing to prevent teen drug use/abuse.