Parents who host, lose the most

By Goldie Wood, 
Prevention & Outreach Manager, Ten 16 Recovery Network Clare County Schools:
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Marijuana Use Data from the Michigan Profile for Healthy Youth Survey, 2015-2016

The disparity between those who get “good” grades — A’s and B’s, and those who get “bad” grades — D’s and F’s, is striking. Student success and drug and alcohol abuse are intricately linked.

Students with poor grades are over 2 times more likely to have recently used alcohol, over 3 times as likely to have recently used marijuana, 4 times more likely to have recently used cigarettes, and almost 3 times more likely to have used synthetic marijuana.

The main substances used by county students are alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, and synthetic marijuana. Cocaine, methamphetamines, and steroids are also a significant concern for seventh grade. Regular use of most substances increases as youth get older, with almost one in every four eleventh graders reported having drank in the past 30 days.

Additionally, almost one in every five eleventh graders reported smoking marijuana in the past 30 days.

Goldie J. Wood, MSA, CAC, CPC, has been active in the substance abuse field for over thirty years, focusing on adolescent counseling, substance abuse prevention, and coalition building in Bay County and the state of Michigan.

She currently serves as Prevention and Outreach Manager, for 1016 Recovery Network, for all six of their regional counties. 

Her home office is at their Clare site, where she will be a working Supervisor.Goldie lives in Rhodes, MI with her husband, three dogs, and two cats. 

She has two wonderful adult children, 12 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. She enjoys camping, fishing, hunting and reading.