Word: admit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debutantes. "These days it's everywhere," says Dottie, 17. "Cheerleaders puff. Sixth-graders puff." The very ordinariness of drug use leads some to conclude that it is without risk. But there are plenty of kids on the Corner at New Trier who started out as recreational users and now admit they can't stop. One prematurely wise senior voices disdain for "gumpy sophomores who think it's harmless." Some end up in rehab programs, which far more often than not fail initially with adolescents. The sad fact is that many will have a substance-abuse habit all their lives...
Among kids who admit they can't control their pot smoking, trouble at home often lurks in the background. Even in Chicago's relatively tranquil North Shore, dysfunction blooms in a thousand ways. Drew, for instance, a thoughtful 16-year-old junior who began getting high in the eighth grade, has had trouble handling marijuana from the start. He claims that his absent father once had a substance-abuse problem. By the ninth grade, he says, "my priorities were totally screwed up. I didn't even buy the books I needed. I was selling pot in the boys' room...
Most students admit they don't know the differences between confidential and anonymous testing, according to two random surveys done by members of AIDS Education and Outreach several years...
...admit, the pretentious Nike advertising campaign--"I'm Tiger Woods..."--has already worn thin. I was pretty disturbed when I saw that Tiger was going to be included in the Skins Game--what I call made-for-TV golf--after only four months on tour...
...says he considers special efforts to recruit and admit minorities "a necessary evil...