2016 Student Drug Use Survey Alcohol and Drug Abuse by Youth in Greater Cincinnati Results from the PreventionFIRST! 2016 Student Drug Use Survey Topic summaries and regional key findings from 2000 to 2016 are available at www.prevention-first.org Aggregate raw data in SPSS format is available on OASIS through www.OASIS.uc.edu The Student Drug Use Survey In service of our mission to increase data-driven decision-making for prevention programs, PreventionFIRST! implements the Student Drug Use Survey (SDUS) every two years to seventh through twelfth graders in the 10-county Tristate area. Results of the SDUS provide comprehensive descriptions of the self-reported drug use patterns of area youth in addition to descriptions of gambling behaviors and other attitudes and behaviors known to be related to alcohol and drug abuse (e.g., family characteristics and participation in community or school events). The table below presents the 2016 results for five key measures of substance abuse. Measure 30-Day Use Perceived Harm1 Disapproval2 Parental Friend Disapproval2 Average Age of First Use (yrs) Alcohol 16.3% Tobacco 8.2% Marijuana 11.7% Prescription Drugs* 4.6% 78.5% 73.7% 64.6% 86.0% 86.8% 61.5% 13.4 92.8% 75.1% 13.1 90.5% 68.5% 13.8 95.1% 86.1% 13.2 *Non-medical use 1Percent responding harmful or very harmful feels behavior is wrong or very wrong 2 Percent responding that parent of friend Demographics The data reported comes from a census of 88 public and private schools from the 7th through 12th grade student population from Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Highland and Warren counties in Ohio, and Kenton County in Kentucky. Overall, 53% of respondents were female and 47% were male. The racial/ethnic makeup of respondents is representative of the region. Methodology Every school district in the Tristate area was contacted by PreventionFIRST! and invited to complete the 2016 SDUS at little or no cost to the schools. Overall, 39,085 seventh through twelfth grade students completed the localized version of the PRIDE questionnaire between September 2015 and November 2015. Students were not sampled within schools; every student in school on the day the survey was administered completed the survey. No surveys were conducted outside of the school building. 30-Day Use of Alcohol, Cigarettes, Marijuana, and Prescription Drugs PERCENT Special thanks to:  Charles H. Dater Foundation  Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center  City of Cincinnati Police Department  Clinton County Family and Children First Council  The Drees Co.  Hamilton County Mental Health Recovery Services Board  Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office  Hamilton County Sheriff’s Dept.  Interact for Health  Local member coalitions and other organizations who facilitated and funded the implementation of this survey  Lyghtel Rohrer Communications  Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services  PRIDE Surveys, Inc.  School Participants 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Alcohol Cig/Tob Marijuana Prescription YEAR 2330 Victory Parkway, Suite 703, Cincinnati, OH 45206 Phone: 513.751.8000  www.prevention-first.org  Fax: 513.751.8001 PERCENT 30-Day Use of Alcohol, Cigarettes, Marijuana, and Prescription Drugs by Grade Key Findings  Most kids are NOT using alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs.  Since 2000, alcohol use has declined 46%, cigarette use decreased 61%, marijuana use declined 22% and prescription drug use decreased 29%.  Alcohol remains the substance most widely used by today’s teenagers.  Gradual declines continued into 2016, which marked the lowest levels for alcohol use ever recorded by the survey.  Marijuana attitudes among students continued to move toward greater acceptance.  Cigarette use continued to show significant declines, reaching their lowest levels in the history of the survey.  The new product of e-cigarettes, has a 30-day prevalence higher than the prevalence of tobacco cigarette smoking.  Students have long seen heroin to be one of the most dangerous drugs, which helps to account for both the consistently high level of perception of harm and the lowest prevalence of use.  Parental and Friends Disapproval are at the highest levels ever recorded.  The Age of First Use continues to hover around 13 years old. 40 20 0 Alcohol Cigarettes 7th 8th 9th 10th Marijuana 11th Prescription 12th PERCENT HARMFUL/VERY HARMFUL Perception of Harm 100 80 60 Alcohol 40 Cig/Tob 20 Marijuana 0 Prescription YEAR PERCENT WRONG/VERY WRONG Perception of Parental Disapproval 100 80 60 Alcohol 40 Cig/Tob 20 Marijuana Prescription 0 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 YEAR PERCENT WRONG/VERY WRONG Perception of Friends Disapproval 100 80 60 Alcohol 40 Cig/Tob 20 Marijuana Prescription 0 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 YEAR Mission: To promote healthy behaviors by sparking and sustaining community change Vision: People make healthy choices in every stage of life