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Xavier High School
FCD Student Attitudes and Behavior Survey
Parent Presentation
September 2014
FCD Educational Services
Tim Ryan, FCD Prevention Specialist
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What is prevention?
 A collaborative process involving schools, families,
and communities that promotes the health and
welfare of young people by planning and
implementing strategies that:
 Reduce risk factors that contribute to
unhealthy behaviors
 Identify and intervene on unhealthy behaviors
 Nurture and strengthen protective factors that
contribute to health and well-being
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Risk Factors for Addiction
 Family
 Age
history
of first use
 Cravings
 Tolerance
 Surroundings
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Current Concerns
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Always alcohol
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Marijuana
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Nicotine
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E-cigarette
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Chew and dip
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Prescription
medicines
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Heroin
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Marijuana
What’s changing
 Legalization
What’s the same
 Addictive
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Medicinal
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Adults vs. kids
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Potency
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Learning and memory
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Edibles
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Motivation
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Perceived risk
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Maturity
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Availability
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Legal issues for kids
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School discipline issue
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“Study Drugs”
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Adderall & Ritalin
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ADD and ADHD
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Stimulants
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Side effects
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Nervousness
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Restlessness
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Excitability
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Dependence
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Prescription Pills
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Painkillers
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Vicoden
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Oxycontin
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Percocet
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Generics
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The Teenage Brain
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Alcohol and other drugs
interfere with forming
connections in a teen’s
brain.
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These connections are
intended to be formed
without the presence of
alcohol or other drugs.
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A brain in transition from
child to adult is more
vulnerable to addiction.
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The Teenage Brain
Front brain functions that
develop during adolescence:
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Abstract thinking
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Higher-order logic and
reasoning (moral
dilemmas)
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Self control (emotions,
impulses)
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Future-oriented thinking
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Organization
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Social Norms
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People tend to do what they
perceive everyone else is
doing.
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What people think everyone
else is doing becomes the
norm. But…
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…perceptions are not always
accurate. Still…
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…behaviors occur based on
false norms.
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Basics
 Administered October 23, 2013
 Grades 9-12
 1061 surveys
 Paper survey
 Patterns are important
 The goal is prevention
 Building the Xavier vision
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Reliability and Validity
Input
 Vetted by the experts
 Respectful and curious students
 25 checks for inconsistent answers
Outcome
 97% of students gave valid responses
 Data reliable for accurate trends
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Key Findings
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The vast majority of Xavier students hold positive beliefs,
engage in responsible decision making, and exhibit
healthy behaviors.
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Healthy Trends
 51% of students have never had a whole drink.
 69% of students do not drink, or typically drink 1-2
times per year.
 94% have never used alcohol, marijuana, or other
drugs before coming to, or during, a school event.
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Social Norms
 Gross exaggerations
 False perceptions
 Perception influences reality
 Affects younger children
 Research-based prevention
strategy
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Key Findings
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Xavier students grossly overestimate alcohol and
marijuana use, and underestimate abstinence from
alcohol and marijuana use, on the part of their peers.
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False Perceptions - Attitudes
 8% of all students think “it is cool to get
drunk.”
 Yet, 29% of all students assume
schoolmates think “it is cool to get drunk.”
 13% of 12th graders think “it is cool to get drunk.”
 Yet, 44% of 12th graders assume schoolmates
think “it is cool to get drunk.”
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False Perceptions - Behavior
 15% of 10th graders say they typically use
marijuana 1-2 times a year or more.
 Yet, 78% of 10th graders believe their
classmates typically use marijuana at this
rate or more.
 83% of 9th grade students typically never drink alcohol.
 Yet only 27% of 9th grade students believe their peers do
not drink.
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Alcohol
 295 students drank within the past 30
days.
 270 10th-12th grade students drank
within the past 30 days.
 Among 10th-12th graders, 125 students
consumed 5 or more drinks in a row
within the past 30 days.
 9% of 9th graders drank in the past 30
days, versus 49% of 12th graders.
 Grades 11 and 12 report most
pressure to drink.
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Tobacco
 88% of all students have not smoked a cigarette within the
past 12 months.
 Increases in cigarette use
occur from 9th-12th
grades.
 Smokeless tobacco use
is more prevalent,
especially in grade 11.
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Marijuana
 81% of students typically
never use marijuana.
 Use by 12th graders is
most prevalent.
 Alcohol use predicts
marijuana use.
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Other Drugs
The vast majority of all students do not use other drugs.
In the past 12 months:
 3% over-the-counter drug
misuse
 3% prescription stimulant
drug misuse
By comparison:
 44% alcohol use
 20% marijuana use
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All Use Equals Risk
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A “higher-risk drinker” is a student who consistently reports
consuming 5 or more drinks on 1 or more days within the past
30 days. (110 students in grades 10-12)
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A “lower-risk drinker” is someone who reports typically having
at least one drink 1 to 2 times per year, and who has had a drink
within the last year, but who did not report consuming 5 or more
drinks of alcohol on any day within the past 30 days. (92
students in grades 10-12)
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A “non-drinker” is someone who reports never having had a
whole drink in his or her lifetime, or has not had a drink within
the past year. (321 students in grades 10-12)
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Key Findings
 “Higher-risk drinkers” are at higher risk for a wide
variety of negative emotional, health, and social
consequences, as well as use of other substances.
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Consequences of Higher-Risk Use
Grades Received in Relation to Alcohol and Marijuana Use
Yearly or More
Frequent
Marijuana Users
Higher-Risk
Drinkers
Non-Drinkers
Mostly A’s
20.5
22.7
39.1
Mostly B’s
60.2
63.6
53.3
Mostly C’s/D’s
19.3
13.6
13.3
 “Non-drinkers” are most likely to receive “mostly A’s.”
 98% of all students say academics are important to them.
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Consequences of Higher-Risk Use
On one or more occasions within the past 12 months:
 75% got sick, vomited, and/or had a hangover
 62% forgot what happened
 56% did something they later felt sorry for
 42% had a fight, argument with a friend,
boyfriend, or girlfriend
 34% got into a sexual situation they
regretted.
 31% passed out
 31% got in trouble at home or school
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Faculty and Staff
 90% of students feel
“valued as a person” at
Xavier.
 93% feel that “teachers and
school staff care about me
as a student.”
 85% feel that “my school is
making a sincere effort to
address alcohol and other
drug use problems.”
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Family
 High levels of involvement
and supervision
 61% of students have talked
with a parent about
substances in the past year,
but only 34% have done so
more than once.
 91% report clear family rules about substances.
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School Protective Factors
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Academic achievement
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Extracurricular participation
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Connectivity to trusted adults
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Opportunities for natural highs
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A community where non-use is respected, rewarded,
and normal
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Early intervention health systems
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Infrastructural investment in the social norms approach
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Parents
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Listening to your kids
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Balancing school,
family life, and friends
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Knowing where your
kids go
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Knowing what’s in the
medicine cabinet
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Parents
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Educate yourself and each other about what may be
available to teens
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Know if your teen is adhering to limits
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Know where teens are
spending their allowance
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Work and communicate
with other parents to
help each other hold the
line
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Healthy Expectations
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Explain why limits
exist
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Allow teens to have
their say, but not
always their way
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Balance freedoms with
growing maturity, not
just older age
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Take Away Points for Parents
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All student use equals risk
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Delayed use can prevent
later problems
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The majority of students
are making healthy
choices most of the time
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Adult role modeling and
expectations are vital to a
healthy prevention climate
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What Works?
Effective prevention programs…
…engage the entire community
…change social norms perceptions
…provide accurate, age-appropriate drug information
…develop awareness of consequences of use
…reinforce clear and consistent expectations of health
…balance health and discipline systems
…delay first use of alcohol and other drugs
…address known risk factors and reasons kids use
…teach early intervention strategies
…promote alternative ways to get high
…support and encourage non-use
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Resources
FCD Educational Services
A part of
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“FCD: Prevention Works”
National Institute on Drug Abuse
http://www.nida.nih.gov
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Thank you!
FCD Educational Services
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