Monitoring the Future 2011 Results

The Monitoring the Future Survey has been administered to 8th, 10th, 12th grade students annually since 1975. The purpose of the anonymous survey is to establish baseline attitudes and behaviors concerning legal and illegal drugs. The survey seeks to determine how frequently (if at all) young people are using particular drugs and the attitudes about drugs, their perceived ill health impacts, for example, that accompany that use. 46,000 students participated in this year’s survey. Here are a few of the takeaways:

  • 1 in 15 young people smoke marijuana on a near daily basis (a 30-year high)
  • More 10th graders smoke marijuana than cigarettes
  • 1 in 9 students reported using synthetic marijuana in the last year
  • Poison control centers received 5,741 calls about synthetic marijuana last year
  • Teen drinking – including heavy drinking – are now at historically low levels
 

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