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New 2007 Overview of Key Findings is now available. This report presents a summary of the national
results on adolescent drug use, with a particular emphasis on recent trends in the use of licit and illicit drugs.
The full text (PDF, 784K) of this volume is available.
2007 Press Release
"Overall, illicit drug use by American teens continues gradual decline in 2007."
See the text and associated tables and figures.
2007 Press Release
"Teen smoking resumes decline."
See the text and associated tables and figures.
The Education-Drug Use Connection
is now available. This book focuses on the fact that adolescents who do well in school are less
likely to smoke, drink, or do drugs. It addresses the question: Which comes first -- drug use or
school failure? See a description of the book
or the related press release.
Volume I is a 699-page monograph giving the 1975-2006 national trends
in smoking, drinking, and illicit drug use among American secondary school
students. It provides a much more in-depth treatment than the Overview
of Key Findings, covering subgroup differences, attitudes and beliefs
about use, etc. You may download the complete
volume (PDF, 5051K) or see the suggested citation.
Volume II is a 307-page monograph covering many of the same subjects as Volume I for
college students and adults through age 45, including 27-year trends among American
college students (1980 through 2006). You may download the
complete volume (PDF, 2939K) or see the
suggested citation.
Occasional Paper 67 supplements Volume I with figures that
graphically display the cross-time trends for the various demographic
subgroups. This paper (PDF, 2094K) is
available only online. See the suggested citation.
Monitoring the Future 12th-grade descriptive results for nearly 2,000 items
are now available in annual volumes for 1975 through 2005:
Monitoring the Future: Questionnaire Responses From
the Nation's High School Seniors.