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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Reduce the proportion of lesbian, gay, or bisexual high school students who have used illicit drugs — LGBT‑07 Data

Status: Getting worse

  Getting worse
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Most Recent Data:
27.8 percent (2019)

Target:
16.1 percent

Desired Direction:
Decrease desired

Baseline:
23.1 percent of sexual minority students in grades 9 through 12 reported that they had ever used illicit drugs in their lifetime in 2017

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Illicit drugs ever used among lesbian, gay, or bisexual adolescents, 2017-2019
(percent)
Decrease desired

Population 2017 2019
Total
23.1
27.8
CI 23.8 / 32.2
SE 2.079