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Victims of Hate Speech Hate speech directed at teens declined slightly between 1999 and 2005, from 13 percent to 11 percent...> View Indicator Steroid Use In 2002-2003, tenth and twelfth grade males who were highly involved with an athletic team were more likely than those who did not participate to have used steroids in the last year. In grade 12, the contrast was 5.1 percent for males participating in athletics to a great extent compared with 2.2 percent for those not participating at all...> View Indicator Young Adults in Jail or Prison Between 1999 and 2005 the number of adults ages 18 to 29 in prison of jail rose from 745,200 to 843,228, an increase of 13 percent. In the last year alone, numbers rose by nearly 20,000... > View Indicator Juvenile Detention: Adolescents in Residential Placements The rate at which adolescents were held in juvenile detention has been declining since 1999, dropping from 356 per 100,000 in 1999 to 307 per 100,000 in 2003... > View Indicator Physical Fighting by Youth The percentage of students in grades 9-12 who had been in at least one physical fight in the past year decreased from 43 percent in 1991 to 36 percent in 2005. Decreases occurred for both male and female students. However, from 2003 to 2005 the proportion of students who reported being in a physical fight increased from 33 percent to 36 percent... > View Indicator Students Carrying Weapons The percentage of high school students carrying weapons in the past 30 days declined from 26 percent to 17 percent between 1991 and 1999, and since then has risen slightly, with 19 percent carrying weapons in 2005...> View Indicator Binge Drinking Binge drinking among eighth and tenth graders continued to decline slowly in recent years, from 15 percent of eighth graders in 1999 to 11 percent in 2005 and from 26 percent among tenth graders in 2000 to 21 percent in 2005. However, the rate for twelfth graders has remained constant in the last several years and was at 28 percent in 2005...> View Indicator Daily Cigarette Use Between 1996 and 2005, daily cigarette use fell by more than half among both eighth grade students (from 10 percent to 4 percent, respectively) and tenth grade students (from 18 percent to 8 percent, respectively). Cigarette use has also been declining among twelfth graders, from 23 percent in 1999 to a new low of 14 percent in 2005...> View Indicator Marijuana Use The percentage of eighth and tenth grade students who use marijuana rose in the early 1990s, leveled off towards the end of the decade, and has since decreased, with 7 percent of eighth graders and 15 percent of tenth graders reporting use in the past month in 2005. The percentage of twelfth graders who used marijuana in the past month has fluctuated substantially and was at 20 percent in 2005...> View Indicator Illicit Drug Use Other than Marijuana In 2003, nearly one in ten twelfth grade students reported using illicit drugs other than marijuana in the past month...> View Indicator
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