NIDA’s Truth poll is offered to students during National Drug and Alcohol Facts Chat Day to encourage them to think about their daily challenges related to substance use in their student and family communities. The questions are the same every year, so responses can be tracked year to year.

Poll: I am too afraid to ask the school nurse about drugs.

• Yes         23%
• No          62%
• Maybe   15%

Poll: I really don’t know how marijuana affects the teenage brain.

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