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Teen-age smoking, drug use rising
University of Michigan
report blames lack of
publicity for increase
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Smoking and drug
use among American teen-agers is increas
ing after a decade of decline, a study
showed Monday, and its author warned
that "the stage is set for a potential resur
gence of cocaine and crack use."
University of Michigan researchers said
they noticed a relaxing of attitudes about
the dangers of drugs among eighth-, 10th -
and 12th-graders in a yearly survey.
"These attitudes and beliefs, specifically
the dangers believed to be associated with
the use of these drugs ... play a critical role
in deterring use," said Lloyd Johnston, who
directed the study. "When they begin to
soften, as they did last year, an increase in
use can be expected."
He said the issue of drug use "fell off the
radar screen," during the previous decade
and "we may have been lulled into a false
sense of security."
The study found a three or four percent-
age-point rise in the last year or two among
students who reported any use of marijuana
in the previous 12 months/
In 1993, nine percent of eighth-graders
smoked marijuana, 19 percent of lOth-graders
and 26 percent of 12th-graders.
There has been a rise in cigarette smoking,
too, after 10 years of fairly steady decline.
After falling from favor in the last 15
years, LSD use has been increasing gradually
and there has been a rise in the use of in
halants like glues, solvents and aerosols.
"With more young people smoking ciga
rettes and using marijuana, and with the psy
chological and social constraints on use de
clining, the stage is set for a potential resur
gence of cocaine and crack use in this popula
tion," Johnston told a news conference.
He said that in general, black students re
ported the lowest rates of use for virtually
all the drugs and that this was true for all
three grade levels.
The Michigan researchers surveyed
51,000 high school and eighth-grade youths
in more than 400 schools.
Bight percent of the eighth-graders, 14
percent of lOth-graders and 19 percent of
the 12th-graders said they smoked ciga
rettes daily — up by one to two percentage
points.
Johnston said that in the past two years,
the proportion of eighth-graders using mar
ijuana has increased by half; among high
schoolers, the proportion has increased by
one-fifth or more.
In 1979, 60 percent of 12-graders had
tried marijuana, compared with 35 percent
of the class of 1993.
Among other findings:
♦ Sixty-seven percent of eighth-graders,
81 percent of lOth-graders and 87 percent of
12th-graders have tried alcohol.
* Fourteen percent of eighth-graders, 23
percent of lOth-graders and 28 percent of
I2th~graders admitted to binge drinking
(five or more drinks in a row) in the previ
ous two weeks.
• Only 53 percent of eighth-graders see a
great risk in smoking a pack or more of cig
arettes a day. But 70 percent of seniors saw
that as a great risk.
* Only 36 percent of the eighth-graders,
30 percent of the lOth-graders and 22 per
cent of the 12th-graders perceive great risk
in trying marijuana once or twice.
Smooth talker' arrested
after hustling girlfriends
The Associated Press
MCKINNEY - A man police
are trying to link to romantic rela
tionships with almost a dozen
North Texas women who claim he
bilked them out of thousands of
dollars remained jailed today.
Maynard Fillers III, 24, whom
police described as a "smooth
talker" who met women through
personal ads and country-western
clubs, said he regrets returning a
call to an undercover police offi
cer.
It was at a suburban shopping
mall where Fillers was arrested
after he invited the undercover of
ficer to go to the Super Bowl in
Atlanta, a trip he'd already
pledged to another woman.
Fillers, who uses the alias Austin
Rickers, was charged with using a
false name and unauthorized use
of a motor vehicle for failing to re
turn a truck belonging to an ex
lover's brother.
A subsequent background
check found numerous arrest
warrants accusing him of passing
bad checks, misdemeanor theft
and failing to pay traffic viola
tions.
He is being held in lieu of
$16,491 bail in the Collin Count \
Jail, a spokeswoman said.
Police Chief Phillip Robertson,
of Celina, said his department's
probe has located almost a dozen
women claiming past ties to
Fillers.
Two women said he went
home with them from a Fort
Worth nightclub and stayed
through the Christmas holidays.
They estimate the experience cost
them $2,500.
Another woman said a shop
ping spree cost her $3,600.
Fillers told the Dallas Morning
News that he was sorry if he'd
hurt anyone and said reports of
using the women's money are ex
aggerated.
A divorce and missing his
young son, he said, led him from
one bad liaison to the next.
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