2006 Primary Prevention Awareness, Attitude, and Use Survey

Willingness to Use Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs

(PPAAUS items 10-24) Eleven percent of the middle-school students and 40 percent of the high-school students were willing to drink alcohol, and four percent of the middle-school students and 19 percent of the high-school students expressed interest in smoking marijuana. (“Willing” reflects responses of Would Like to Try or Use It or Would Use It Any Chance.) An average of threepercent of the Franklin County Schools sixth through eighth graders and 13 percent of the ninth through twelfth graders were willing to smoke cigarettes. An average of one percent of the middle-school students and four percent of the high-school students were willing to use chewing tobacco. Three percent of the middle-school students and 12 percent of the high-school students were willing to use other tobacco products, cigar-like.

One percent of the Franklin County Schools 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 three percent respectively would use over-the-counter medications to get high.

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

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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