Summer Is Peak Time for Teens to Try Drugs, Alcohol: Report
More teenagers start drinking and smoking cigarettes and marijuana in June and July than in any other months, U.S. health officials say.
During each of those summer days, more than 11,000 teens on average use alcohol for the first time, 5,000 start smoking cigarettes and 4,500 try marijuana, according to the report, which was released Tuesday by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...