YouthThink of Wasco County is trying to give high school students a better idea of the reality of substance usage among their peers.  Debby Jones of YouthThink says they were able to take part in freshmen orientation at The Dalles High School, and in small group setting shared that according to surveys they’ve done of the rate of students currently substance users was about 12 to 13 percent, while the students’ perception was much larger, as high as 70 to 80 percent.  Jones thinks the gap between perception and reality in some ways can be explained by the way we talk about these issues.  She adds students say they constantly see messages around substance use that suggests “everyone is doing it.”