"Only 7 percent of parents believe that teens might use drugs to cope with stress. 'A wide disconnect exists between what teens are thinking and feeling and what parents believe about their teens when it comes to attitudes about drug use,' said Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services Director Angela Cornelius Dawson."The study marks a dramatic shift in the reasons teenagers use drugs. In previous studies, 65 percent of teens said they'd used drugs to "feel cool." Source: The Toledo Journal
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