Last week we talked about what the CASA (or National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University) would report and now this week the detailed report has actually come out concerning drugs and alcohol in high schools. Parents, students, teachers and policy-makers all need to be on alert because of the latest findings.

Some of the key findings include:

1) a 63-percent jump in observed drug use in middle schools by other students

2) of the students coming in for drug and alcohol treatment, 10.5-percent started using before 11-years-old

3) among parents, 11-percent said drug use in high school was the most important problem their children faced while 24-percent of their kids said drug use was the most important issue