2003 Primary Prevention Awareness, Attitude, and Use Survey

Willingness to Use Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs

(PPAAUS items 10-22) An average of four percent of the Franklin County sixth through eighth graders and 14 percent of the ninth through twelfth graders were willing to smoke cigarettes. (“Willing” reflects responses of Would Like to Try or Use It or Would Use It Any Chance.) An average of one percent of the middle-school students and three percent of the high-school students were willing to use smokeless tobacco. Twelve percent of the middle-school students and 41 percent of the high-school students were willing to drink alcohol, and five percent of the middle-school students and 21 percent of the high-school students expressed interest in smoking marijuana.

One percent of the Franklin County students in grades six through eight were willing to use designer or club drugs (ecstasy, XTC, Special K, GHB). An average of one percent of the middle-school students were willing to use cocaine or crack, one percent hallucinogens, one percent inhalants, and one percent speed (crystal meth or angel dust). Among ninth through twelfth graders, five percent would use club drugs, three percent cocaine or crack, six percent hallucinogens, two percent inhalants, and three percent speed.

An average of one percent of the Franklin County students in middle school and five percent in high school indicated they would use someone else’s prescription drugs to get high. One percent and four percent respectively would use over-the-counter medications to get high.

One percent of the middle-school students and two percent of the high-school students indicated interest in using steroids, and one percent of the middle-school students and six percent of the high-school students indicated interest in other performance enhancers (ephedra, glutamine, creatine).

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