{"id":29863,"date":"2011-12-15T04:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/survey_more_teens_using_synthetic_drugs\/"},"modified":"2011-12-15T04:00:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:00:37","slug":"survey_more_teens_using_synthetic_drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29863","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Survey: More teens using synthetic drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one in nine high school seniors have gotten high in the past year on synthetic drugs, such as &#8220;K2&#8221; or &#8220;Spice,&#8221; second only to the number of teens who have used marijuana, a new survey shows.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Monitoring the Future,&#8221; the nation&#8217;s most comprehensive survey of teenage drug use, found 11.4% of the high school seniors had used the synthetic substances, often packed as potpourri or herbal incense and sold in convenience stores, which mimic the effects of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is astounding,&#8221; said Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think they have any idea how dangerous these synthetic drugs are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/story\/2011-12-14\/more-teens-using-synthetic-drugs\/51900736\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one in nine high school seniors have gotten high in the past year on synthetic drugs, such as &#8220;K2&#8221; or &#8220;Spice,&#8221; second only to the number of teens who have used marijuana, a new survey shows. &#8220;Monitoring the Future,&#8221;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29863\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,99,111,104,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-education","category-health-medicine","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}