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Drug use down or level among teens: Good news from NIDA
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30103
Subject(s) - monitoring the future , drug , medical prescription , substance abuse , psychology , medicine , environmental health , psychiatry , pharmacology
The current Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is full of mainly good news: continued decreases in teen use of cigarettes, alcohol, prescription opioids, and synthetic cannabinoids. The level of marijuana use has not gone down, however, with 6% of 12th graders using it on a daily basis — the same figure for 2015 as for 2014.