Partnership Releases New Parent Data

Yesterday morning at a virtual press conference (webinar) the Partnership for a Drug-Free America announced a new resource for parents. At the same time it also released its Partnership Attitude Tracking Study (PATS) Parents 2007 Report.

PATS is “an annual study that is the largest drug-related attitudinal tracking study in the country.” The 2007 study included 1,045 parents or caregivers of children ages 10-19 (margin of error +/-3 percent).

The report includes one section regarding inhalant abuse: Chart 3 on page 8.

• “Only 1 in 4 (25%) of parents feel “extremely prepared to know the types of household products that children/teens inhalant to get high.”