Figure 2.4. Percentage of All Juvenile Drug Arrests that Involved Marijuana and Percentage of All Juvenile Treatment Admissions for a Primary Problem of Marijuana 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 Marijuana Arrests Marijuana Admissions 1988 were for a primary problem of marijuana. This dropped to a low of 20 percent in 1991, but climbed to 51 percent in 1994. Endnotes National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Future Study: Trends “Monitoring 1 in Prevalence of Various Drugs for 8th-Graders, 10th-Graders, and High School (Rockville, Md.: National Institute on NIDA Capsules Seniors,” Drug Abuse, 1994). R. Clayton, et al., Increase in Use of Selected Drugs: Monitoring the Future 2 Study of (Washington, D.C.: Office of National Drug 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-Graders Control Policy, 1994). A bias may exist when comparing the prevalence rates of inhalants between 3 1994 and the previous survey years in Texas due to a modification of the specific-type- inhalant question in the 1994 Texas School Survey instrument. As discussed in Chapter 1, the get was added to the phrase “to high” responses in question 16 of the survey instrument. This should be kept in mind later in the study whenever analyzing the trends and correlates of inhalant use among Texas secondary students from 1988 to 1994.
Figure 2.4. Percentage of All Juvenile Drug Arrests that Involved Marijuana and Percentage of All Juvenile Treatment Admissions for a Primary Problem of Marijuana 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 Marijuana Arrests Marijuana Admissions 1988 were for a primary problem of marijuana. This dropped to a low of 20 percent in 1991, but climbed to 51 percent in 1994. Endnotes 1 National Institute on Drug Abuse, “Monitoring the Future Study: Trends in Prevalence of Various Drugs for 8th-Graders, 10th-Graders, and High School Seniors,” NIDA Capsules (Rockville, Md.: National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1994). 2 R. Clayton, et al., Increase in Use of Selected Drugs: Monitoring the Future Study of 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-Graders (Washington, D.C.: Office of National Drug Control Policy, 1994). 3 A bias may exist when comparing the prevalence rates of inhalants between 1994 and the previous survey years in Texas due to a modification of the specific-type- inhalant question in the 1994 Texas School Survey instrument. As discussed in Chapter 1, the phrase “to get high” was added to the responses in question 16 of the survey instrument. This should be kept in mind later in the study whenever analyzing the trends and correlates of inhalant use among Texas secondary students from 1988 to 1994.
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