Every seven minutes a youth is arrested for a drug crime; four million Americans between twelve and seventeen smoke cigarettes, and twelve million Americans the same age smoke marijuana (seventy-six percent of the total number of adults who used any illicit drug in 2001). ... The second leading cause of death for people between ages fifteen and nineteen is suicide; untold millions more teens "self medicate- by smoking, drinking, or snorting away their problems on a regular basis, and with these two facts come two other ever-present realities: anxiety and depression. ...

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