A new survey of Florida teens shows a drop in drug use among some of the most well known drugs.

The survey, the 2007 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey, is a yearly review of teen drug use in the sunshine state done by the Florida Office of Drug Control Policy.

This year's survey should declines in Tobacco, Alcohol, and marijuana use.

Cigarette smoking is down to 8.5% of kids reporting smoking the last 30 days. That is it's lowest in the eight year history of the survey.

Just 11% of kids reported smoking marijuana in the past 30 days. That represents a 24% drop since the survey was started in 2000.

Alcohol is down slightly, with 31% of kids reporting drinking, but still remains the most common drug used among teens.

However, some contend that this survey doesn't paint the complete picture.

"I would have to disagree with some of the statistics," said Kim Serdevan, A clinical director at the Jacksonville Youth Crisis center.

She says that kids aren't doing fewer drugs; they have just shifted to doing prescription drugs.

"They are having such things called pharm-parties, or generation RX. In which they are taking the drugs to various people's homes and mixing them all up, and using them at that point," she said.

She says many kids have easy access to the pharmaceuticals and don't see them as a serious threat in the same way that many see other drugs. Sometimes they won't even report that type of drug use because they don't think it is drug abuse.

This survey did show that just under 8% of teens reported abusing prescription drugs. And some national surveys say the number could be as high as 20%.

The use of prescription drugs has caught the attention of the head of the FODCP.

"Illegal drug use continues to decline. I am concerned about increases in abuse of prescription drugs, but overall trends are excellent," said Director Bill Janes.

The survey ask questions of 7,836 6^th-12^th graders in 43 of the state's 67 counties.

Read the whole survey Here