*    36.8 per cent reported no drug use
*    about one in five students use cannabis, alcohol and tobacco, an increase of 1.8 since 1991
 

ALCOHOL
*    alcohol use has remained relatively stable since 1991
*    54.2 per cent drank alcohol at least once during the year before the survey, 30.3 per cent drank more than once a month and 13.2 per cent drank at least once a week
*    59.6 per cent of students who drank alcohol reported drinking five or more drinks at one sitting, on at least one occasion in a four-week period
 
 

CANNABIS
 *    about 12 per cent use cannabis more than once a month, almost three times more than in 1991
*    19.6 per cent used cannabis in the month before the survey
*    one in three, nearly doubled since 1991, adolescent students report using cannabis
*    students with a less than 60 per cent average in school are almost twice as likely to use cannabis as those with a higher average
 

OTHER DRUGS
*    use of alcohol, inhalants, prescribed tranquilizers, cocaine, crack, heroin and prescribed and non-prescribed barbiturates, has remained relatively stable
*    2.1 per cent used heroin at least once in the year before the survey
*    less than 2 per cent reported the medical or non-medical use of barbiturates
*    among the students who used drugs, 3.5 per cent reported injection drug use
*    of the 60 students who reported injecting either heroin, cocaine, speed, LSD or anabolic steroids in the year before the survey, 11 shared needles or syringes