John Walters
John Walters
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The trends of substance use among our adolescent girls are alarming.
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It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.
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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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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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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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The suggestion is not to say too many children are being shot in their dens who are marijuana users.
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Today, the Mexicans have taken over and are running the organized crime, and getting the bulk of the money. The Colombians have pulled back.
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Girls have become users at rates that exceed boys or equal boys now, which never used to be the case.
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But that doesn't appear to be stopping them from using (them).
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We want to make sure we continue the decline and deal effectively with the current circumstance.
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twice as many eighth-graders have tried marijuana today than a decade ago.
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The reason we're pointing to this alarming trend is because if we're going to get girls to continue to decline in drug use effectively, we're going to have to deal with those causes, which are different.