So (JcTo Ber. |$ i j th More than half the junior Aieh, frequency” “were siricstty” an students . in. Ogden tale a seeking a new kick or thrill. _ | some experience Te eee Senior high students gave the lalcohol, ‘and nearly all hier adding being and senior high students believe same replies, drugs can be obtained with unhappy and bored as a third principal reason. for ex- comparative ea | These are’ two of the results jreported’ in a i ssessment drag perimenting. use Asked how available drugs made — in junior BE ee students eee ee high _ said se check cent said glue was no probe to obtain; “17 per cent said estate Department of one 1X OUNG 82. Drugs for used for*recreational and ‘social glue purposes. On comparisons between the f per cent ca idad. wsperimenters,” grade levels, Dr. Raat said § alcohol Pe 1a, 37 per cent two the survey indicates high school | marijuana; trying it for students are more permissive depressants, ; and’poses and 25 on marijuana; their general & Se Wf Ar Mee nior mostly alues; ne ee Ae ay high ore nsensus at ae senior THBt RVEEGAIN ofh theoe wa an high | || attitude toward drugs is more |. sophisticated, ilability level, 56 increased an and drug, ‘ has considerably , the higher nade “ep | ; eseeonns Where do you get. pe econ cooperating schoo districts last week. marijuana is easy to get, and 18| Junior ‘high students —_said|s per cent said depressants a principal hag ‘were friends : easily gotten. -: and “‘at a party eggs included oe Eight per’ cent said fided At the senior high level, itl high chide fi Okcen. ont | nareoties ‘can be obtained, and 9| was friends, -parties, and. gat 4 | wre a districts in the. state, Co said : hallucinogenic school. although fe had reason to believe. the| re sults were quite metropolitan area. ene oo. Ay for a LOCAL SURVEY _He said that in general the local survey appears to indicate hat the drug problem is definitely not going away, that Marijuana is even more popular ind more available, and that cal students are beginning in Nall numbers to experiment’ nh the hard drugs such as in. ‘In other aspects, it seems idoscipiitel pila a ten or havin the to do ks it, \thES stim uiune and ae hbseants uppers” and ee y gre ia P t locall d that junior high students replied that ionly 41 per cent had never used: dt at that stage. In the senior. ‘high, only about 28 per cent said| ‘they had never used alcohol. “sytraryto getto the locally, and belief,tha usual praeers are using more ressants than stimulants, piiorts of school people to | ‘lif inate drugs apparently have. | Succeeded mostly in driving em from within the schoo buildings to the parking lots and nearby street areas, Drs Raat said. 4 _ He called the survey. probably, Ee | > . most extensive done yet in} ee state. Reports on’ two other phases| % the study are still to come Ge state sources, he,said. aa : Dr. Gerald H. Raat, assistantipr {superintendent of the Ogden district, said the report included no comparisons with other} ont ‘calcobet | Among junior high students,| '83 per cent said they had never ‘used marijuana. At’ the senior | ‘high level, 66 per cent said they had never used it. ; | | SOME INVOLVED Among “hard” narcotics such| ‘as heroin, about 1 per cent at | ‘both junior and senior high) ovale said they had had some | ‘involvement with it. bout 8 per cent of both) junior and senior high students| said they had never tried glue’ sniffing. Students who said they had) |never experimented with drugs’ |said their two principal reasons for leaving them alone were |health reasons first, and We ‘sonal beliefs” second. did you experiment? The most common reasons given at (the | Juniog high level, in order of | | | | | | i | } |