Despite overall drug use decreasing in the U.S., high school seniors who attend raves or music festivals, even sporadically, had a much higher likelihood of using illicit drugs, compared with those who never attended these events, according to recently published study results in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. “Use of each illicit drug other than marijuana was at least twice as prevalent among rave attendees, and the common ‘club drugs’ ketamine and GHB were both almost six-times more prevalent among attendees. Higher frequency of rave attendance was consistently associated with higher odds for reporting recent use of each of the drugs assessed,” Joseph J. Palamar, PhD, MPH, department of public health at New York University Langone Medical Center, said in a press release.
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