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By Joshua Rhett Miller. November 20, am Updated November 20, pm. A marijuana trafficker convicted of kidnapping and raping a teen — and then burying her alive — was executed this week at an Indiana prison, becoming the eighth federal inmate to die this year. Orlando Cordia Hall, 49, was put to death via lethal injection late Thursday at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, where he was pronounced dead at p. Hall then raped the teen — an honors student and aspiring doctor — in a car and later drove her to a hotel in Arkansas, where he and his accomplices bound and repeatedly raped her, prosecutors said. Substance Abuse On Today s Teens

Print, Share, or View Spanish version of this article. Despite some bright spots, national statistics on illicit drug use are alarming.

More than a third of US high school students have tried an inhalant or illicit drug by the time they are in eighth grade. More than half use an illegal drug by the time they finish high school.

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Eighty percent of today's high school students have used alcohol. So if your teen suddenly becomes moody, is spending time with a different group of friends, or starts failing in school, you may wonder if drugs are to blame. Medically testing your teen for drug use may seem like a straightforward way to get an answer. But it probably is not the best way. Drug tests are not always reliable, and your teen may resent being tested.

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Other methods may be better. Through confidential interviews and questionnaires, your pediatrician can help assess whether your teen has a drug problem without resorting to lab tests. If your teen does undergo a drug test, it should be voluntary. Consult your pediatrician if you believe your teen should be tested for drug use. Drug tests most commonly analyze urine. However, many body tissues and fluids can be tested for drug use. Hair, saliva, nails, and sweat are among them.

Some of these alternatives show promise. For example, hair tests are difficult to fool and may reveal drug use months after it occurs. But hair tests are fairly new and do not detect recent drug use.

Hair color and type or secondhand marijuana smoke also may skew hair test results. Saliva, nail, and sweat testing need to be refined as well. A chemical analysis of urine—or urinalysis—is the most common drug test. But the test has limits and parents should consider the following pitfalls:. Test may not detect all illicit drugs.]