These figures for 7th graders are double and in some cases triple the rate for other counties in the study that included Sacramento, El Dorado Sutter, Yolo, Yuba, Nevada, Placer, and Colusa Counties. More than half of Amador Countyth graders reported being “very drunk or sick” after drinking, the highest rate in the Nine County Region. And nearly a third of 9th and 11th grade students said they had either driven a car after drinking alcohol, or had been a passenger in a car when another student had been drinking. The Healthy Futures Project study was released by the Community Services Planning Council and the data was provided by county and state agencies. The AmadorCounty report also provides statistics on other health-related topics including access to health care, physical fitness of kids and adults, rates of cancer and heart disease, community safety and economic self-sufficiency. high school’s 11
Friday, 01 February 2008 01:06
Amador Teens Top Drug/Alcohol Abuse in Region
Amador County’s teens are using
drugs and alcohol at much higher rates than other teens in the Capitol region –
that’s according to a study that looked at health issues in a nine-county area.
Nearly 75 percent of 11th
graders said they had used drugs or alcohol in their “lifetime” – that’s 8
percent higher than the state average. Even more alarming are the
statistics for 7th grade students. 13 percent of Amador County’s
7th graders reported being high on drugs at least once and 7 percent
said they’d been high at least 7 times. One-fifth said they’d been offered
drugs on their junior high school campus at least once in the last year.
