Survey Indicates Teen Drug Use Continues To Decline
Findings from this year's Monitoring the Future survey have been released. According to the survey, conducted by the University of Michigan for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders are continuing to show a gradual decline in use of illicit drugs.
"The cumulative declines since recent peak levels of drug involvement in the mid-1990s are quite substantial, particularly among the youngest students," said University of Michigan research scientist Lloyd Johnston, the study's principal investigator.
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