Monitoring the Future. National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2007. Volume One. Secondary Students

摘要

The Monitoring the Future (MTF) study is 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 nearly a third of a century, the study has provided a clearer view of the changing topography of these problems among adolescents and young and middle-aged 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 approaches for intervention. 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 2007 survey, reported here, is the 33rd in this series of national surveys of substance use among Americas young people. This annual monograph series has been the primary vehicle for disseminating the epidemiological findings from the study. It has grown very substantially over the years in both coverage and size, in part because of the proliferation of substances being used. This latest twovolume monograph presents the results of the 33rd survey of drug use and related attitudes and beliefs among American high school seniors, the 28th such survey of American college students, and the 17th such survey of 8th- and 10th-grade students. Results have also been reported for high school graduates followed in a series of panel studies through middle adulthood (currently extending to age 45).