Students who use drugs or alcohol are more likely than non-users to experience academic failure, including dropout, especially if the use is heavy and regular.
- More so than alcohol, marijuana usage has a negative effect on academic performance (lower GPA and higher dropout rates). According to the authors, this might be because teen marijuana use is more common during the week and drinking behavior is different. Alcohol is frequently consumed on weekends. National research reveal that juvenile marijuana use has increased recently as the perceived risk of damage from marijuana has decreased.
- Both early academic failure and substance use can occur before failure in school. Adolescent substance use can take many different paths to have a variety of negative results.
- Academic performance improves when substance use is stopped after receiving treatment. This data demonstrates that addressing substance use is a key component of raising academic achievement.
Therefore, substance abuse and academic failure are linked to each other.
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