9 Substance Use Behaviors

Percent of Youth Reporting Each of 9 Substance Use Related Risk-Taking Behaviors Comparison by Survey Year.

		Survey Year
Category	Definition	2004	2006	2008
Alcohol	Used Alcohol once or more in the last 30 days	38%	33%
Alcohol	Got drunk once or more in the last two weeks	25%	22%
Tobacco	Smoked cigarettes once or more in the last 30 days	24%	18%
Tobacco	Used smokeless tobacco once or more in the last 12 months	13%	12%
Inhalants	Sniffed or inhaled substances to get high once or more in the last 12 months	11%	9%
Marijuana	Used marijuana once or more in the last 12 months	31%	25%
Other Drug Use	Use other illicit drugs once or more in the last 12 months	14%	10%
Driving & Alcohol	Drove after drinking once or more in the last 12 months	13%	11%
Driving & Alcohol	Rode (once or more in the last 12 months) with a driver who had been drinking	37%	36%

From Developmental Assets: A Profile of Your Youth for Great Lakes Center for Youth Development © [2004, 2006] by Search Institute, Minneapolis, MN. Data collected with the survey Search Institute Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors, Copyright © 1996, Search Institute, Minneapolis, MN.

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