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...negative). Then the no-comments got angrier, and the press got hungrier, and on Wednesday in New Orleans the wall of privacy came tumbling down. Asked by the Dallas Morning News ? they win the trip-the-candidate prize ? about whether Bush would require that his appointees answer the drug-use question for FBI background checks, George W. bit. "As I understand it, the current form asks the question, ?Did somebody use drugs within the last seven years?? and I will be glad to answer that question, and the answer is no." Thursday morning in Virginia, back the goalposts went again...
First the good numbers: After a rapid run-up in teen drug use during the mid-'90s, usage among 12-to-17-year-old kids has fallen from 11.4 to 9.9 percent from 1997 to 1998. That's still more than in the early part of this decade, but at least the pattern of increase has been reversed. Now the bad: The government's annual survey of 25,500 Americans (who apparently have less trouble than George W. Bush in talking about such things) shows that drug usage is still steadily going up among those in their late teens...
...Secretary Donna Shalala was willing to go further and say the government had really "turned a corner" in combating illegal drug usage. And, proclaimed White House drug czar Barry McCaffrey, "the fact that the numbers are best for the youngest age group [12-17] is a harbinger that use will continue to fall as this group grows older." By underplaying the numbers, Clinton is probably taking the right approach. "What you don't know is whether this is the result of a run of strong antidrug messages and advertisements from the White House, or a stronger economy," says TIME White...
...quote I'll use is, "I have great breasts. Come touch them. Feel them...
DIDN'T YOU JUST SAY NO? The anti-drug program DARE is taught in 75% of U.S. school districts, yet a new study from the University of Kentucky indicates that it has no long-term effect on kids' use of illegal drugs. In interviews with those who completed DARE in 1988, 46% admitted to smoking marijuana and 24% to taking other drugs within the past year. Researchers say programs would be more effective if they focused on kids most at risk...