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Lloyd Johnston on MTF, survey he led for 42 years
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2018
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.30266
Subject(s) - principal (computer security) , substance abuse , psychology , survey research , sample (material) , criminology , political science , sociology , library science , psychiatry , applied psychology , chemistry , chromatography , computer science , operating system
Drug use comes in waves, because generations tend to forget — if they ever even really knew — what their parents did. This means that that no one substance can be targeted for prevention, says the researcher who may know more about American teenagers and drug use than anyone in the country. Lloyd Johnston, Ph.D., has been leading the Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), since it started 42 years ago. He is still involved in the survey, but has handed over the role of principal investigator to Richard Miech, Ph.D., research professor of youth and social issues at the University of Michigan. We talked to Johnston about the history and future of MTF, the questionnaire given to a representative sample of adolescent students every year.