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Tobacco
Marijuana
Inhalants
Another potential risk is their use may prime the brain for
addiction to other substances
Alcohol
Alcohol including beer, wine, and hard liquor is the drug used most
often by adolescents today
PAYS question:
How many times (if any) have you had beer, wine, or hard liquor in
your lifetime/during the past 30 days?
38.7% QCSD
43.9% for PA
Marijuana
Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug
PAYS question:
How many times (if any) have you used marijuana (pot, hash,
cannabis, weed) in your lifetime/during the past 30 days?
12.7% QCSD
17.3% for PA
Tobacco
Tobacco (including cigarettes and smokeless tobacco) was the
second most commonly used drug among adolescents. National
smoking rates, however, have declined substantially in recent years
PAYS questions:
Have you ever smoked cigarettes? How frequently during the past 30 days have you
smoked cigarettes? Have you ever used smokeless tobacco (chew, snuff, plug, dipping
tobacco, chewing tobacco)? How frequently during the past 30 days have you used
smokeless tobacco?
Prescription Narcotics
Prescription Narcotics are used primarily to manage pain, but are
also sought after for the accompanying euphoria. The number of
opioid prescriptions received by patients seeking pain treatment
has nearly doubled in the last decade.
PAYS questions:
How many times (if any) have you used prescription pain relievers (such as Vicodin,
OxyContin, Percocet, or Codeine) without a doctors orders, in your lifetime/during the
past 30 days?
Risky Substance Use-Related Behaviors
6% of QCSD students engaged in binge drinking in the past two
weeks
8.8% in Bucks County
7.8% at the state level
Low self-esteem
Depression
Students also reported that adults in the school stop bullying when
they see/hear it and when it is reported to them
Social & Emotional Health
Social & Emotional Health
Nationwide:
20% of adolescents have a diagnosable mental disorder
How many times in the past 12 months have you done something to harm
yourself?
Did you make a plan about how you would attempt suicide?
Social & Emotional Health - Results
How did students in QCSD and PA respond?
Students in QCSD* Students in PA*
* Percentages represent an overall report from all grade levels. Grades that exceeded the state
average were noted.
Social & Emotional Health - Results
Stressful events can also impact a students mental health and
readiness for learning
Worry over running out of food at home due to money issues (14.5% of students)
Unstable home life due to homelessness, being abandoned, runaways (6.4% of students)
Worry over running out of food was higher than state average in
grades 6 and 8 while skipping meals was higher in grades 8 and 12
Risk Factors
Risk Factors
Risk factors are conditions across communities, families, school and
peers/individuals that increase the likelihood of:
Delinquency
Teen pregnancy
Family examples
Family history of antisocial behavior
Family conflict
School examples
Academic failure
Risk Factors - Results
Highest community risk factors
Low neighborhood attachment (38% of students)
Attitudes favorable to antisocial behavior and drug use (31% and 32% of students,
respectively)
Perceived risk of drug use or friends using drugs (40% and 24% of students,
respectively)
Family examples
Family attachment
School examples
Opportunities for prosocial involvement
Family examples
Family attachment (67% of students)
School examples
Opportunities for prosocial involvement (52% of students)
Higher risk factors of parental attitudes Higher risk factors of low neighborhood
favorable toward antisocial behaviors and attachment, parental attitudes favorable
sensation seeking behavior toward antisocial behaviors and drug use
as well as depressive symptoms
&
&
Lower protective factors rewards for
prosocial involvement in the community, Lower protective factors rewards for
religiosity, and opportunities for prosocial prosocial involvement in the community,
involvement within their families religiosity, and opportunities for prosocial
involvement within their school
Risk Factors vs. Protective Factors
10th graders reported: 12th graders reported:
Higher risk factors of low neighborhood Higher risk factors of low neighborhood
attachment, parental attitudes favorable attachment, parental attitudes favorable
toward antisocial behaviors and drug use, toward antisocial behaviors and drug use,
low commitment toward school, perceived low commitment toward school, academic
risk of drug use as well as attitudes failure, depressive symptoms, perceived
favorable toward antisocial behavior risk of drug use as well as attitudes
favorable toward antisocial behavior and
& drug use