Prescription Drug Abuse Affects our Teens

According to the 2015 Pulaski High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey 15% of PHS students have reported taking a prescription drug without a doctors prescription, 8% of the students reported doing this 30 days prior to taking the survey.  7% of PHS students reported taking an over-the-counter drug to get high.  To learn more about Prescription Drug Abuse, watch this short video.

What's wrong with Marijuana?

In January, 2015 students at Pulaski High School took the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). 11.1 % of PHS students surveyed had used Marijuana in the 30 days prior to taking the survey, in the state of Wisconsin based on the YRBS 17 % of students had reported smoking marijuana 30 days prior to taking the survey. 19.8% of PHS students have reported having tried Marijuana, and 5% of those students tried it before the age of 13.  Many students will argue that there isn't anything wrong with smoking marijuana; and with some states legalizing it, the dangers of smoking marijuana are minimized in the eyes of a lot of people. Get informed about Marijuana by reading the following article: http://www.addiction.com/4177/marijuana-and-teenage-brains/

The Dangers of Marijuana and Teenage Brains

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