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For example, heroin is 65% pure to today whereas, according to New York State Police records, it was only 6% pure in 1993. Marijuana today has much higher THC content than it did in the 1970s.
Aside from these points, Kerr also points out a fact that many parents seems to forget, "In a group of 100 teenagers who are offered a joint, cocaine, or heroin, for example, most are not going to be killed or have their lives ruined by this one event. A certain percentage will be, depending on the drug and their personal predisposition...of genetic, psychological and environmental factors."
The Phoenix House survey also included these statistics:
- 19 percent of teens were introduced to drug use by family members: 9 percent by siblings; 5 percent by parents; 4 percent by uncles, aunts or cousins; and 1 percent by spouses.
- Fewer than 1 percent were introduced to drugs by a professional drug dealer.
- Of all teens surveyed, 22 percent of whites reported doing drugs with parents; 22 percent of Hispanics reported doing drugs with their parents; and 18 percent of blacks reported doing drugs with their parents.
- 22 percent of teens living in urban areas reported doing drugs with their parents, compared to 17 percent of teens living in the suburbs.
This study conducted by Phoenix House is most comprehensive one as of late that queries parents, drugs, and teens. Last year, in a similar study, A Partnership for a Drug-Free America interviewed 6,500 teens and discovered that the number of parents giving their teens education about the inherent and particular dangers in taking illegal drugs.
According to this survey, the anti-drug message of parents influenced their children not to take drugs. In recent years, teen drug abuse has, in fact, been on the decrease.
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