Healthy People 2010 Leading Health Indicators
Ten Major Public Health Issues

Healthy People, 2010
National Health Objectives
21Critical Adolescent Objectives

Substance Abuse

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Past-year illicit drug use, 12^th graders, 2002

Trends in past 30 day substance use, 12^th graders, 1975-2002

Trends in high-risk use of substances, 12^th graders, 1975-2002

Past 30 day alcohol use by race/ethnicity and grade level, 2002

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Past 30 day cigarette use by race/ethnicity and grade, 2002

Smoking

Functional Value of Risk Taking
“Cigarettes for youth are interpersonal bonding and binding; a cigarette is not an ‘it’; youth don’t smoke ‘it’.  They are ‘with’ cigarettes and others.  It is in this sense that cigarettes are a habit: cigarettes are taken for granted.”
Michael Baizerman, 1979

Drug Abuse Prevention Programs

Key Components- Dusenbury