New Report Finds Teen Substance Use Up in Many States

Nov 19, 2015
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A new report has found that 24 states scored five or lower out of 10 on key indicators of leading evidence-based policies and programs that can improve the well-being of children and youth and have been connected with preventing and reducing substance – alcohol, tobacco or other drugs – misuse.

The Reducing Teen Substance Misuse: What Really Works report, produced by Trust for America’s Health, found that among the most recent drug overdose death rates among 12- to 25-year-olds:

Current rates were highest in West Virginia (12.6 per 100,000 youth) – which were more than five times higher than the lowest rates in North Dakota (2.2 per 100,000).
Males are 2.5 times as likely to overdose as females (10.4 vs. 4.1 per 100,000).
In 1999-2001, no state had a youth drug overdose death rate above 6.1 per 100,000. By 2011-13, 33 states were above 6.1 per 100,000.

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