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Indian students' use of meth drops sharply However, rate remains more than twice that of all high schoolers



Despite the higher rate of meth use among Indians, Superintendent of Public Instruction Linda McCulloch said she was pleased by the significant decline since 1999.

Back then, figures show, nearly 27 percent of reservation high school students said they had used meth at least once. More than 24 percent of Indian students off reservations also reported using the drug.

Today, those figures have fallen by more than half, said McCulloch, whose office conducts and tallies the survey. She attributed the fall to many factors, including widespread public advertising campaigns.

"I think it's very positive," she said. "I think it says a lot out about our students paying attention to information they get in school, information they get with the Montana Meth Project campaign and on our reservations."

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