. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: Prim Care. 2020 Feb 27;47(2):331–349. doi: 10.1016/j.pop.2020.02.010

Table 4.

Emerson Hospital’s youth risk behavior survey, 2018 (Massachusetts)

(6th, 8th, and 9th to 12th Graders)	N = 11,018
Youth who use illegal drugs	38–51%
Youth who smoke cigarettes	32%
Youth with grades in the “D-F″ range	32%
Gender-nonconforming youth	28%
Youth who misuse others’ or their own prescription medication	27–28%
Youth who chew tobacco	27%
LGBTQ youth	17%
Middle Eastern youth	16%
African American youth	15%

Data from Emerson Hospital 2018 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, www.emersonhospital.org.