Adolescent Cigarette, Alcohol Use Declines as Marijuana Use Rises
The latest iteration of NIDA’s annual Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey brought welcome news of declines in use of cigarettes, most illicit drugs, and alcohol among 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade students. In 2012, cigarette smoking fell to its lowest rate in the survey’s history for each grade level. Use of inhalants, amphetamines, cocaine, and hallucinogens all receded. Trends in Annual Use of Illicit Drugs Other Than Marijuana Alcohol use decreased across nearly all the prevalence intervals of lifetime, past-year, current, and binge use. Despite much notoriety, the stimulants called “bath