2003 Primary Prevention Awareness, Attitude, and Use Survey

Self-Reported Use of Designer Drugs, Cocaine, Hallucinogens, Inhalants, and Speed

(PPAAUS items 31, 33-36) Fewer than one-half percent of the middle-school students and one percent of the high-school students reported using designer drugs or club drugs (ecstasy, XTC, Special K, and GHB, for example). Over all grades surveyed, regular use of club drugs was one percent among males and one percent among females. One percent of the Franklin County students surveyed (one percent male and one percent female) reported regular use of cocaine or crack – less than one-half percent in middle school and two percent in high school. An average of less than one-half percent of the middle-school students and two percent of the high-school students reported regular use of hallucinogens (one percent male and one-half percent female, overall). One-half percent of the sixth through eighth graders and one percent of the ninth through twelfth graders reported using inhalants at least once a month (overall, one-half percent of the males and one-half percent of the females). An average of one-half percent of the middle-school students and one percent of the high-school students (overall, one percent male and one-half percent female) used speed monthly or more often.

An average of 99 percent of the Franklin County students in grades six through eight had never used designer or club drugs; 96 percent of the high-school students had never used club drugs. Ninety-nine percent of the middle-school students and 96 percent of the high-school students had never used cocaine or crack. Ninety-nine percent of the middle-school students and 95 percent of the high-school students had never used hallucinogens, and 98 and 97 percent respectively had never used inhalants. An average of 99 percent of the middle-school students and 97 percent of the high-school students had never used speed.

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