PEDIATRICS Vol. 44 No. 6 December 1969, pp. 1038
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Drug Abuse in Adolescence

Theodore S. Tapper M.D.1

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The report of the Committee on Youth concerning "Drug Abuse in Adolescence" (PEDIATRICS, 44: 131, 1969) has many valid points to make. However, there are several issues which the report raises which concern me.

Virtually no mention at all is made of the two prime offenders among the abused drugs:alcohol and tobacco. Simply because their use is legal and their deleterious effects are more of a chronic nature is no reason to ignore them. Far more deaths and chronic, debilitating illness, as well as acute trauma in auto accidents, are caused by these agents than by those mentioned in the report.