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The federal government's annual report of alcohol and drug abuse by children seems reassuring: Compared with recent years, marijuana use is down in 2009, use of hallucinogens is way down and use of methamphetamine is way, way down.
But the researchers and public officials who crunch those numbers warned that some of the statistics gleaned from an annual survey of 46,000 American 8th-, 10th- and 12th-graders are worrisome.
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