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Teen marijuana and nicotine vaping remains high: MTF
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32923
Subject(s) - nicotine , monitoring the future , substance abuse , medicine , drugs of abuse , psychology , drug , psychiatry
The most recent Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey of teen substance use behaviors and attitudes, released last week by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), found that nicotine and marijuana vaping levels remain markedly high but did not increase between 2019 and early 2020. From 2017 to 2019, the percentage of teenagers who said they vaped nicotine in the past 12 months roughly doubled for eighth graders from 7.5% to 16.5%, for 10th graders from 15.8% to 30.7% and for 12th graders from 18.8% to 35.3%. In 2020, the rates held steady at a respective 16.6%, 30.7% and 34.5%, according to the survey results released Dec. 15.