According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse
have also shown. In the MTF survey, about 27% of 12th graders and 20% of 10th graders said they’d vaped nicotine in the past year, compared to almost 35% and 31% in 2020.
Similar numbers of students said they’d used marijuana in some form in the past year. But few reported using illicit drugs other than marijuana—just 7% of seniors and 5% of sophomores, down from about 11% and 9% in 2020.also remains rare among teenagers, with just 4% of seniors and 2% of sophomores saying they’d smoked in the past 30 days.
While those figures are encouraging, the researchers did warn that pandemic-era data collection comes with drawbacks. NIDA, along with researchers from the University of Michigan, conducts MTF each year, surveying thousands of eighth, 10th and 12th graders across the country. For the 2021 version, the roughly 32,000 respondents filled out the survey online—some at school and some at home.
That may have skewed the results somewhat, since teenagers may feel uncomfortable honestly reporting their substance use when their parents are nearby, the researchers warn. Students who are not engaged with schoolwork—which is considered a risk factor for drug use—may also have been less likely to take the survey if they were learning remotely, and thus may have been underrepresented in the group.
It’s also possible, Volkow says, that some of this progress may be erased in future years, as pandemic restrictions ease and. “I am concerned that, if we are not proactive in trying to do prevention, we will get back to the numbers that we had before,” Volkow says. “We can [maintain this year’s] numbers if we are able to provide strong education and training for teenagers, and provide them with alternative behaviors.
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