Study: One in 5 drink, smoke or do drugs during school day

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A new survey found that nearly one in five students do drugs, drink or smoke cigarettes during the school day. Marijuana was the drug easiest to buy on school grounds, kids said.

They may be in the classroom, but their heads are somewhere else.

Nearly one in five students do drugs, drink or smoke cigarettes during the school day, according to a jarring new survey by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.

While the revelation that 17% of high school students may be half in the bag on any given day may come as a shock to some parents or teachers, its old news to the 1,000 students surveyed.

Some 86% told survey-takers that they were well aware their glassy-eyed classmates were stoned or drunk.

It takes a teen to know whats going on in the teen world, said Emily Feinstein, who directed the 17th annual survey.

Half of the students polled said they know who deals drugs at school and where students can go nearby to get high.

Marijuana was the drug easiest to buy on school grounds, students said, followed by prescription drugs, cocaine and ecstasy.

The survey of 12- to 17-year-olds also found that seeing pictures on Facebook or MySpace of their pals partying made them want to get drunk or stoned themselves.

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Study: One in 5 drink, smoke or do drugs during school day