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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Mike Stobbe

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Most us teens are abstaining from drinking smoking and marijuana survey says - Caught on Camera

US MED Teen Drug Use - (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Teen drug use hasn't rebounded from its drop during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results from a large annual national survey released Tuesday.

About two-thirds of 12th graders this year said they hadn’t used alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes or e-cigarettes in the previous 30 days. That’s the largest proportion abstaining since the annual survey started measuring abstinence in 2017.

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