Method

   This Survey took many hours to accomplish. We made a survey and handed the questions to the students in the classroom of the University of Texas Arlington. The students answered fifteen questions about their drinking and doing drug history. Here is an example of our Survey.

Survey on Drinking and Doing Drugs

1. First, what is your age, please?

a)      12

b)      13

c)      14

d)      15

e)      16

f)        17

g)      18

2. Do you currently attend school? If yes, what grade are you in? If not, are you

home schooled or did you dropped out of school?

a)      6

b)      7

c)      8

d)      9

e)      10

f)        11

g)      12

h)      Other

i)        Home schooled

j)        No response

3. What is your gender?

a)      Female

b)      Male

4. What is the most important problem faced by people your age?

a)      Drugs

b)      Alcohol

c)      Tobacco

d)      None

5. Has anyone ever asked you to use substances?

a)      Yes

b)      No

c)      No response

d)      Not asked

6. Do students smoke on school grounds (if yes) is smoking explicitly allowed, is it tolerated, or does it happen despite the best efforts of the school administrators?

a)      smoking is explicitly allowed 

b)      Smoking is tolerated

c)      Smoking occurs despite best efforts of administrators

d)      No smoking on school grounds.

7. Have you seen teachers or administrators use tobacco products at school?

a)      No smoking on school grounds

b)      Seen smoking

c)      Don’t know /no response

8. Which is easier for someone your age to buy?

a)      Cigarettes

b)      Beer

c)      Marijuana

d)      All the above

9. How would your parents react when you smoke?

a)      Extremely upset

b)      Fairly upset

c)      A little upset

d)      Not upset

10. Why did you start consuming illegal drugs?

a)      Peer pressure

b)      Curiosity

c)      Because you felt like it

d)      Influence of an adult

e)      Never done drugs

11. How often do you drink?

a)      Once a year

b)      Once a month

c)      Once a week

d)      Once a day

e)      Always

f)        None

12. If you drink alcohol how old where you when you consumed it?

a)      12 or younger

b)      13 -16

c)      17-18

13. Who was the first person who offered you any drug, alcohol, or cigarettes?

a)      A parent

b)      A bother or sister

c)      A friend your age

d)      An old teen

e)      An adult( other than your parents)

f)        No response

g)      Not asked

14. Have you ever tried any products?

a)      Yes

b)      No

15. How harmful to the health of someone your age doing any kind of drugs, alcohol, or smoking.

a)      Very harmful

b)      Fairly harmful

c)      Not harmful at all

16.  Where do you usually drink?

        a)  friends’ house

        b)  parties

        c)  your house                                                                                

        d) other