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Patrick Morrisey: “Students reporting alcohol use in the past 30 days dropped…”

Featuring: Patrick Morrisey, Republican | Governor of West Virginia

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Published | Video Starts at 07:38

We have the West Virginia School Learning Environment Survey from the Department of Education that's actually showing that substance abuse is down, man, among a lot of kids your age. It's pretty cool, right? Very, very cool. Right? So during the last school year, Students reporting alcohol use in the past 30 days dropped from 14% in 2018 to just 4% in 2020. 4. Pretty incredible, right? That's a 10% drop. During that same time period, students reported heavy drinking dropped from 8 to 7%. Marijuana also went down. (07:38–07:48)

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Asserts a significant decrease in reported alcohol use among students over two years.

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