In a 2000 study, National Yang-Ming University Department of Public Health professor Pesus Chou and Academia Sinica Institute of Biomedical Sciences research fellow Cheng Tai-an determined that 1-1.5 % of Taiwan's teenaged students had tried drugs. Investigations done away from the schools painted a different picture of teen drug use.
2000 年，陽明大學公衛系教授周碧瑟與中研院生醫所研究員鄭泰安，曾針對台灣在學青少年做過調查，顯示青少年藥物濫用的盛行率介於 1.0∼ 1.5％之間，即每 100 位在學青少年中，約有 1 至 1.5 人曾經沾染毒品。