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Frequent and Heavy Use by User Groups
To further describe alcohol and other drug use by the three user groups, we have
characterized each category with respect to monthly drug and alcohol use and the
frequency of binge drinking (Tables 4-6)
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Table 4
Monthly Drug Use By User Groups
(Percent of Each Group That Used an Illicit Drug in Previous 30
Days)
High Risk Conventional Abstainers
Users Users
8th Graders 88.1 11.1 0.1
10th Graders 82.0 12.5 0.8
12th Graders 79.6 15.4 0.0
Table 5
Monthly Drinking By User Groups
(Percent of Each Group That Used Alcohol in Previous 30 Days)
High Risk Conventional Abstainers
Users Users
8th Graders 77.7 41.9 0.8
10th Graders 88.4 57.3 0.0
12th Graders 89.3 66.3 0.9
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Table 6
Binge Drinking By User Groups
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(Percent Of Each Group That Cc;nsumed Five Or More
Drinks In A Row In The Past Two Weeks)
High Risk Conventional Abstainers
Users Users
8th Graders 56.9 19.8 0.3
10th Graders 67.3 29.4 0.0
12th Graders 58.7 34.3 1.4
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