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More than half of teens in the south of the country use drugs and binge drink regularly.

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Endoscopy3 months ago

Sad sad thing. probably the same for the rest of the country.
A concept in the story differentiated between drugs and alcohol. Alcohol is a drug. Just legal for adults. Hillary Clinton got rid of the just say no program that was having an impact on this. This is part of the result.
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  Dicax_Maximus3 months ago
  
  Endo - Somehow I doubt Hilary had ANY impact on this, as it's related to the UK, not the US !!
  Much as I dislike the woman, not even I can blame her for it !!!!!!!!!
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  libsRfunny3 months ago
  
  "'The research found 51% binge drank regularly which is defined as five or more drinks on one occasion once a month or more,' said a conference spokesman.
  "He added that 19% binge drink weekly, while 4% said they binge drink several times a week."
  Sounds like normal teen behavior to me. I'm surprised it's only 51 percent have five drinks or more at least once per month. When I was a teen, that figure likely would have been about 75 percent -- at least where I grew up in the Midwest.
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    Dicax_Maximus3 months ago
    
    Hic, hic, I'll shecond dat.....
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Dicax_Maximus3 months ago

Ahhhh UK youth of today.....
Gives one so much confidence as to the future of the country....
Good find Nick, I knew it was bad, just not THAT bad.....
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SunnyDays3 months ago

Nothings wrong with drinking really.. just be sure not to drink much.
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HMMace2 months, 4 weeks ago

After a life of drinking, I look back and wish my parants had never shown me the way...My drinking never cost me any thing but the money to buy it, but--all that money wasted..i am fortunate not to have suffered healthwise from it, as I am 80, but--still wish I had not ever seen a bottle of whiskey..With a drinking society--it is hard not to, but I gained absolutely nothing from it..
shortly after fifty years old, began to have "black outs"..Scared me in to quitting,,now--wish I had never seen the stuff..have not had a drink in twenty years.
Retirement is good--golf is good..
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cloud152 months, 4 weeks ago

51%.....we be slacking!
Interesting that they only polled the south, but I would guess its pretty much the same all around the country.
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