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NEWS: The Australian Jan 18 2011 / "Ecstasy use on the rise in older students"

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NEWS: The Australian Jan 18 2011 / "Ecstasy use on the rise in older students"

MORE older high school students are using party drug ecstasy, a new report has revealed.

The federal government released the 2008 Australian Secondary Students Alcohol and Drug Survey today.

It showed the proportion of 16- and 17-year-olds who had reported using ecstasy in the month prior to the survey had increased from 2.3 per cent in 2005 to 3.4 per cent in 2008.

However, only four per cent of all high school students had ever used the drug in their lifetimes.

Cannabis was the most commonly used illicit substance, with 14 per cent of all high school students aged between 12 and 17 having taken it at least once.

Three per cent of 12-year-olds had used cannabis before, but that figure leapt to 26 per cent of 17-year-olds.

Six per cent of all students had used cannabis in the month prior to the survey and four per cent in the week before.

In a landmark finding, the report revealed the proportion of students smoking tobacco in the week prior to the 2008 questionnaire was the lowest since the reporting initiative began in 1984.

Five per cent of 12- to 15-year-olds had smoked in the seven days before the survey and this was significantly lower than the seven per cent recorded in 2005 and 11 per cent in 2002.

Among 16- to 17-year-olds the number who have smoked in the past week rises to 13 per cent, less than the 17 per cent found in 2005 and the 23 per cent recorded in 2002.

Fewer Australian secondary students aged between 12 and 17 said they have tried alcohol at some point. About 82 per cent said they had alcohol compared with 86 per cent in 2005 and 88 per cent in 2002.

Even so, acting Health Minister Mark Butler said he was concerned 44 per cent of recent drinkers aged 16 and 17 were bingeing.

"This just backs up the government's decision to develop the national binge drinking strategy and increase the tax on alcopops," he said in a statement.

Mr Butler also urged teenagers to think carefully about using illicit substances like ecstasy, a drug the government is trying to crackdown on at music festivals this summer.

About 24,000 students participated in the survey, coordinated by the Cancer Council of Victoria.
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Keep in mind this is 2008, still a nice year in in regards to mdma? How do they release a report from 3 years ago? it takes that long to compile data? Someone explain this survey business to me. ;p

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Cosi
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2008 was the last year I used MDMA, I wouldn't say it was a "nice year in regards to MDMA" but getting pills containing MDMA and other MDxx substances was not hard, and although quality was down from previous years so was cost. I would say piperazines started popping up in pills in 2008 but were not an epidemic until early 2009.

It definately seems odd it has taken them 3 years to release these results. Also, the last 3 years in terms of the ecstasy market have been a fucking lifetime and the statistics from then will be unlikely to remotely reflect todays situation.
 
Probably political expedience- if some politician or special interest group was funding their research they might have temporized its release to get support for there legislation, public policy strategy (ie prosecuting the drug war), justify getting funding to do this, ect...So much for unbiased research.:(
 
its like they ignore the results of the surveys

illegal drugs being abused more than those that are regulated

then spin it around and say they should crack down on ecstasy at festivals :|
 
This just backs up the government's decision to develop the national binge drinking strategy and increase the tax on alcopops
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Lol and how'd that play out? Oh thats right everyone got on straight bottles instead and didn't reduce the amount of "alcopops" sold, way to go Government...
 
Similar article in the local rag, had me concerned on one hand, that so many people are eating shitty pills and laughing on the other, that so many people are being duped into thinking they are getting 'ecstasy'
 
2008 was definitely not a bad year at all for MDMA, if anyone remembers the green and white hearts.

It does seem strange it takes them so long to release the results of a survey, as I generally thought results were published for the previous year. Though it's just published in the Australian, so if they had a slow news day maybe they just go to old reports to fill in the gaps.
 
I don't even know any young people that take pills any more, in fact getting them is near impossible these days because no one wants to touch them.
 
Yeah there were definitely still good pills around in 2008, it was late that year and early 2009 that things started to go downhill
 
I'll vouch for that, the yummy things in my pic were at the very end of December 2008 start of January, and they blew my mind and are the reason I'm on bluelight today.
 
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