POLL: Teens & Drug Use

Earlier this month, responding to a fire at Putnam Park, police found . In September, marijuana was found at . In March, a, at Weston High School.

Drug use in high school, while perhaps troubling, no doubt exists. Last month, stating that 48 percent of seniors admitted to “having taken illegal drugs ‘multiple times in the last 12 months,’” and that results showed 27 percent of students having “problematic levels” with drug usage.

Results also showed that “30 percent of students [had] ‘problematic levels’ of involvement with alcohol, indicating they had ‘used alcohol three or more times in the last 30 days or got drunk once or more in the last two weeks."

Ridgefield High School’s Superintendent Pat Michael viewed the results as “unsettling,” but said she also believed Ridgefield to be “on par with many schools in the same demographic, especially when it comes to drugs” because of easier “access to pharmaceuticals at home [which] pose a threat in affluent areas.”

Are the arrests of Weston, Redding and Easton attributable to the old adage that "kids will be kids," or do the three quiet towns have a problem that goes deeper?