John Walters
John Walters
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In order to drive it down further, we have to deal with today's substance abuse reality, and today's reality is, girls have been using at higher rates than boys in critical areas.
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It will not take all of the provisions exactly, but it will take many of them and make them nationwide.
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I understand the difficulty in extraditing nationals, but left in Mexican jails these people continue to run the show.
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I urge young people to consider public service, whether they do it now by volunteering in their community or prepare for public service as an adult.
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The risks associated with marijuana have been trivialized and our kids are getting the wrong message, ... We must arm parents, teachers, community leaders and our children with the truth.
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That is an enormous gift to the country as well as an enormous gift to the state.
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They are more likely to be influenced by peer pressure, even when they have been told and accepted that these behaviors are risky for them.
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They barely got the money out the door to recruit, train and deploy these individuals. It takes too much time for this to have had an effect, ... That's what's absurd about the White House claim.
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You don't want them to choose substances of abuse as a way of dealing with stress. You want to be a good example yourself and help them learn that there are positive ways to deal with stress and growing up.
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This is the first time that we've recorded this kind of relationship between boys' and girls' drug use. In the past, boys have had higher rates of use - and significantly higher rates of use at certain times in the past.
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This budget is increasing by seven percent. That's outrageous.
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The trends of substance use among our adolescent girls are alarming.
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Addiction is a serious problem for our nation, and the efforts that individuals make against this problem benefit us all.
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However, if we are to continue the progress we have made in reducing drug use among young people, we must explore other ways to bring drug use down.