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Hispanic Teens Try Drugs, Suicide At Higher Rates

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Posted: Wed., June 4, 2008, 11:50 am
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Topics: Mental Health, Diagnosis, drugs, high school, hispanic, Physical well-being, Suicide, EmpowHer News
     

ATLANTA - Hispanic high school students use drugs and attempt suicide at higher rates than their black and white classmates, according to a new federal survey that shows a continuation of a troubling trend.

"It is disheartening that we aren't seeing progress among Hispanic teens for certain risk factors," said Howell Wechsler of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a prepared statement.

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