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THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1991

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MORE SECONDARY STUDENTS FOUND TO HAVE ABUSED DRUGS

TWO

TECHNICAL INSTITUTE STUDENTS WERE MORE SECONDARY SCHOOL AND FOUND TO HAVE ABUSED PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, MAINLY CANNABIS AND TRANQUILLISERS.

THIS IS

ONE

OF THE

FINDINGS

OF SUBSTANCES

ON SURVEY

(THURSDAY).

NARCOTICS

THE 1990

THE AMONG STUDENTS OF NON-MEDICAL USE OF PSYCHOTROPIC -SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTES RELEASED TODAY THE SURVEY HAS BEEN STUDIED BY THE ACTION COMMITTEE AGAINST (ACAN).

COVERING FOR THE FIRST TIME ALL THE

IN THE TERRITORY,

SURVEY THE NARCOTICS

16 INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS AND IN LAST OCTOBER

A9 A SECRETARIAT, OBJECTIVE TO COLLECT

WAS CONDUCTED DIVISION, GOVERNMENT NOVEMBER BY THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE FIRST SURVEY IN 1987 WITH THE MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND UP-TO-DATE DATA.

A

TOTAL OF

110,000 SOME

STUDENTS

WERE

ENUMERATED.

THESE

INCLUDED 86,147 FROM 126 CHINESE-SPEAKING SCHOOLS AND 16,786 FROM EIGHT TECHNICAL INSTITUTES, AS WELL AS ALL 6,875 STUDENTS FROM THE

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS.

ALL THE STUDENTS SURVEYED WERE ASKED TO COMPLETE A QUESTIONNAIRE.

THE 16

26-QUESTION

ABUSING

THE

THE TYPES OF PSYCHOTROPIC QUESTIONS COVERING SUCH POINTS AS

FOR AND REASONS ATTITUDES THEIR SUBSTANCES ABUSED, SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR SOURCES OF SUCH SUBSTANCES WERE ASKED.

ALL INFORMATION COLLECTED WERE AND NO INDIVIDUAL DATA WERE RELEASED,

TREATED IN STRICT

CONFIDENCE

IN

STUDENTS PSYCHOTROPIC

THE 1990 SURVEY REVEALED THAT 2.1 PER CENT OF THE THE CHINESE-SPEAKING SECONDARY SCHOOLS POLLED HAD ABUSED SUBSTANCES. THE ABUSE RATE IN THE 1987 SURVEY WAS 1.1 PER CENT.

THE FULL-TIME AND BY THE SURVEY

IN ENROLLED THE ABUSE RATES FOR STUDENTS PART-TIME DAY COURSES OF TECHNICAL INSTITUTES COVERED WERE 2.5 PER CENT AND 6.0 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

IN THE THE CORRESPONDING FIGURES 1.7 PER CENT AND 3.7 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

THE SURVEY ALSO FOUND THAT SCHOOLS WAS 5.3 PER CENT.

1987 SURVEY RESULTS

WERE

THE ABUSE RATE IN INTERNATIONAL

THE SURVEY INDICATED THAT MOST

WERE MALE.

OF THE STUDENT DRUG ABUSERS

SUBSTANCES MOSTLY AT THE THEM OBTAINED THE

THEY STARTED TO ABUSE PSYCHOTROPIC AGE OF 13 TO 16, MAINLY OUT OF CURIOSITY, MOST OF SUBSTANCES FROM THEIR FRIENDS.

/CANNABIS REPLACED