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While illegal drug use among young people has been declining, 8th-graders’ inhalant use is about the same as it was in 2000.
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Sources for Summer Friendships and Increased Risk of Drug Use

1 The Partnership for a Drug-Free America. Winter 2004. Partnership Attitude Tracking Study: Parents With Children 18 and Younger, last referenced 5/3/05.

2 Van den Bree, M.B.M., and W.B. Pickworth. March 2005. Risk Factors Predicting Changes in Marijuana Involvement in Teenagers, Archives of General Psychiatry 62, last referenced 5/3/05.

3 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. August 13, 2004. National Survey on Drug Use and Health, The NSDUH Report: Participation in Youth Activities and Substance Use Among Youths, last referenced 5/5/05.
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Reviewed on 6/23/06