Substance abuse in accordance with academic performance

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Substance abuse in accordance with academic
performance

• Charlie Berrigan
• Smiths Falls District Collegiate Institute

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Our Objective

• We wished to discover whether there is a
  connection between the abuse of illegal
  substances and academics in our SFDCI
• Our process and discovery is as follows

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Sample size

• Sample size 200 students from SFDCI
• 50 Grade 9s
• 50 Grade 10s
• 50 Grade 11s
• 50 Grade 12s
• All grades equally spilt in gender (25 male, 25
  female)

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Is there a correlation between substance abuse
and academic performance?
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Is there a correlation between substance abuse
and academic performance?

• The Total

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The Smoking Population

• Do you smoke cigarettes regularly?

Do smoke Don't Smoke
Grade 9 8 42
Grade 10 6 44
Grade 11 18 32
Grade 12 20 30
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Smoking at SFDCI
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Smoking at SFDCI
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Public Medical Central

• rise in smoking with students in Ontario and
  Quebec
• In Ontario, a report from the University of
  Toronto's Ontario Tobacco Research Unit showed
  that the rate of smoking among students in grades
  7, 9, 11, and 13 rose from 22in 1991 to 28this
  year,
• The first study, conducted by Quebec's statistics
  institute for the health ministry, showed that
  the number of students who smoked tripled between
  the first year they attended secondary school and
  the year they graduated

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Gender and Smoking at SFDCI
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Gender and Smoking at SFDCI
the relation between gender and smoking the relation between gender and smoking the relation between gender and smoking the relation between gender and smoking
Male Female
Grade 9 2 4
Grade 10 2 1
Grade 11 4 5
Grade 12 7 6
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The relationship between grade and drug use
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The relationship between drug use and gender
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The relationship between drug use and gender
Male Female
Grade 9 19 13
Grade 10 18 21
Grade 11 18 17
Grade 12 13 24
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The relationship between drug use and academic
performance
the relationship between drugs usage and Marks the relationship between drugs usage and Marks the relationship between drugs usage and Marks the relationship between drugs usage and Marks the relationship between drugs usage and Marks
Yes No
below 40 6 0
40-50 9 0
50-60 9 7
60-70 29 19
70-80 18 57
80-90 15 30
90 4 2
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The relationship between drug use and academic
performance
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Statistics Canada

• . Percentage of Ontario students using drugs at
  least once during the past 12 months, Grades 7, 9
  and 11 only
• 1979 1989 2003 Change from 1989 to 2003
• Tobacco 35.0 22.2 17.4 -4.8
• Alcohol 73.7 62.6 62.9 0.3
• Cannabis 29.1 11.9 27.8 15.9
• Glue 4.9 2.0 3.2 1.2
• Other solvents 7.2 3.4 6.6 3.2
• Barbiturates 7.4 2.1 2.7 0.6
• Heroin 2.5 1.2 1.4 0.2
• Methamphetamine 3.7 2.5 3.6 1.1
• Stimulants 11.0 5.8 5.4 -0.4
• Tranquillizers 5.8 2.2 2.3 0.1
• LSD 9.0 5.4 2.9 -2.5
• Other hallucinogens 5.2 3.8 9.5 5.7
• Cocaine 5.3 2.4 5.1 2.7
• PCP .. 1.2 2.0 0.8
• Crack .. 1.3 3.0 1.7
• Ice .. .. 1.2 ..
• Ecstasy .. .. 3.8 ..

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Your thoughts?

• Our thoughts is that drugs are bad