Guyanese students are using marijuana and cocaine at a marginally lower age when compared to eight years ago. This and other findings are contained in the Secondary School Drug Prevalence Survey Project 2013. The Survey was sponsored by the Organisation of American States Inter American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD). It was conducted by the Crime and Social Observatory of the Ministry of Public Security. Technical support was provided by the Inter American Drug Abuse Control Commission. According to a press release from the Ministry of Public Security, the report presents key findings related to the consumption of licit and illicit drugs among secondary school students in Guyana based on information collected from a sample of Secondary School students from both public and private schools across Guyana. Among the other findings were increases in the average age of first time use for tobacco, alcohol, crack and ecstasy when compared to the results of a previous survey done in 2007…[+]