At Stillwater High School in Minnesota, 99% of the seniors said they haven’t used meth in the past year. A very good number overall, and more than likely none of them will need drug rehab for meth abuse.

On the other hand, 27% of high school students and 41% of college students engage in high risk drinking. It is well known that the Midwest has an alcohol problem and Minnesota is no exception. Half of these students will need drug rehab for alcohol addiction. Far fewer than half will ever actually go to rehab, but they will need it.

In fact only 17 people between the ages of 18 and 25 entered treatment for alcohol abuse in 2007 in the entire Minneapolis area despite the fact that thousands of students are doing high risk drinking in Minnesota on a regular basis. It’s great that meth use is so low, but alcohol abuse figures need to be lowered in Minnesota or the drug rehab programs will be too full to meet the demand.

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