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Concerned parents, youth leaders, law enforcement representatives and other interested county residents met with school superintendent Robert Estabrook last week to brainstorm ways of attacking the problems of drug abuse by Rappahannock's young people.
We applaud the superintendent s involvement in the safety and wellbeing of our youngsters. Drugs are a problem here just as they are in every other community across America and to think otherwise would be playing the preverbial ostrich with its head in the sand.
But in attacking the dilemma of drug abuse, we hope that the people who plan to make the effort an on-going one don’t lose sight of the most dangerously abused drug of them all — alcohol.
Recent national surveys show that for the first time in years, marijuana use among young people is declining. While that may be cause for celebration, the surveys show that alcohol consumption among teenagers is on the rise and alarmingly so.
According to an article in the May 5 edition of the Washington Post, both national and local surveys indicate that about 93 percent of all youngsters 12 to 17 years of age use alcohol to some
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