KANSAS – The Manhattan-Ogden school board will hear a report Wednesday evening on the district’s substance abuse prevention program. While overall drug use is down since 2000, frequent e-cigarette use has increased in the past few years.

According to a 2019 Kansas Communities That Care survey of the district’s 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th graders, approximately one in six students (16.7%) reported having used e-cigarettes, vaping devices or electronic hookahs at least once during their life. That figure is the same as in 2016, the first year the survey asked about use of those substances.