The local group surveyed hundreds of high school students wishing to identify possible concerns in youth's habits and their environments.īased on survey results from seven schools across eastern Ontario, Planet Youth found 33 per cent of high school students had tried alcohol by the age of 13 or younger.Ībout 12 per cent of youth who answered said they had been drunk in the past month. "The idea is not to dwell on talking to individuals but treating society as the patient, making it so that kids are less likely to turn to using substances earlier in their life," said David Somppi, who chairs the group behind it. The county has since developed its own version of the Icelandic model called Planet Youth Lanark County. It turned to Iceland, which has an approach called Planet Youth that took the country from one of the highest rates of substance abuse issues in Europe to one of the lowest. Lanark County first started looking for a solution to substance use issues back in 2018. After hearing from hundreds of teens, a group working to help prevent drug and alcohol use among young Lanark County residents hopes to turn its findings into possible solutions.
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