Teen drug use drops, with exceptions

Abuse of the painkiller OxyContin by younger teens hit record levels in 2006, a national survey says.

While most other teen drug and alcohol use continued a decade-long decline, teen abuse of pharmaceuticals, including prescription narcotics, barely budged, the survey says.

The annual survey of 50,000 high school and middle school students, released Thursday, was conducted by the University of Michigan for the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

More kids raiding mom and dads' medicine cabinets, less kids raiding liquor cabinets and smoking weed. The whole report from the University of Michigan can be found here.