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And 1.5 percent of the 8th graders report using uppers compared to 4.2 percent nationally. Finally, 3 percent report using other drugs compared to 5.6 percent nationally.
Other classes present a more mixed picture. Fourteen percent of sixth graders report using cigarettes, 26.3 percent beer, 29.8 percent wine coolers and 15.8 percent liquor. Only 1.8 percent report using marijuana, cocaine, uppers, downers, inhalants and hallucinogens, and 8.8 percent using other drugs. These figures are above the national percentages for beer, wine coolers, liquor, cocaine, uppers, downers, hallucinogens and other drugs. They are below national percentages for cigarettes, and inhallents and the same as the national percentage for marijuana.
Seventh graders are above national figures for cigarettes, wine coolers and inhalents and below national percentages for beer, liquor, marijuana, cocaine, uppers, downers, hallucinogens and other drugs. Ninth graders were above national percentages for cigarettes, beer, wine coolers, liquor, marijuana, uppers, inhalants and hallucinogens. They reported lower use of cocaine, downers and other drugs than the national sample.
Tenth graders reported more had used six categories of drugs than the national sample and lower numbers using five categories of drugs than the nmational sample. More of Rappahannock’s high school juniors used three categories of drugs than the national sample and fewer used the other eight categories.
“I thought I was a tough old bird, but this shook me,” Piedmont District representative Frances Thornton said.
Chairman Beverly Massie said, “We think we live in a rural community and do not have the same problems as other areas. We’re only putting our heads in the sand. A
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