Monitoring the Future: National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2011, Volume I. Secondary School Students.

摘要

The Monitoring the Future (MTF) study involves an ongoing series of national surveys of American adolescents and adults that has provided the nation with a vital window into the important but largely hidden problem behaviors of illegal drug use, alcohol use, tobacco use, anabolic steroid use, and psychotherapeutic drug use. For more than a third of a century, MTF has provided a clearer view of the changing topography of these problems among adolescents and adults, a better understanding of the dynamics of factors that drive some of these problems, and a better understanding of some of their consequences. It has also given policymakers and nongovernmental organizations in the field some practical approaches for intervening. MTF is an investigator-initiated study that originated with and is conducted by a team of research scientists at the University of Michigans Institute for Social Research. It has been continuously funded since its onset in 1975 by the National Institute on Drug Abuseone of the National Institutes of Healthunder a series of peer-reviewed, competitive research grants. The 2011 survey, reported here, is the 37th in the series.