Illicit Drugs: Bringing Down Our Youth Illegal drug use among adolescents has steadily increased over the last few decades. The United States has only four percent of the world's population, yet we consume sixty-five percent of the hard drugs (USA Today, 2002). Every year more young people are exposed to and are using drugs. These drugs seemed like harmless fun in the 60's and 70's, but thanks to new research and technology we now have scientific …showed first 75 words of 915 total…

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