This report presents findings from a national survey of the 1975-80 high school classes, focusing on drug use and related attitudes of American high school seniors. The materials highlight data on grade of first use, usage trends at earlier grade levels, intensity of drug use, attitudes and beliefs about various types of drug use, and… Continue reading Highlights from Student Drug Use in America 1975-1980

This report presents findings from the national research and reporting program, Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of the Lifestyle and Values of Youth, and is the sixth in an annual series reporting the drug use and related attitudes of high school seniors; the report covers the high school classes of 1975-1982. Two of the… Continue reading Student Drug Use, Attitudes, and Beliefs: National Trends 1975-1982

This report presents detailed statistics on the prevalence of drug use among American high school seniors in 1981, and on trends in those figures since 1975. The purposes and rationale of the study, the research design and procedures, and the representativeness and validity of the study are discussed in the introduction. Section II provides a… Continue reading Student Drug Use in America 1975-1981

This book presents descriptive statistical results from a national survey which examines values and lifestyles of high school seniors. The volume, fifth in a series, presents data from 1979; other volumes report results from 1975 through 1978. Each year the study surveys a large and representative sample of high school seniors nationwide. In 1979, 16,662… Continue reading Monitoring the Future: Questionnaire Responses from the Nation’s High School Seniors, 1979

The current prevalence of drug use among American high school seniors, and trends in drug use since 1975, were investigated as part of the program entitled “Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of the Lifestyles and Values of Youth,” funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The basic research design involved data collection from… Continue reading Drugs and the Nation’s High School Students: Five Year National Trends. 1979 Highlights

The current prevalence of drug use among American high school seniors (classes of 1975 through 1978) was investigated through a program entitled “Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of the Lifestyles and Values of Youth,” conducted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research and funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The… Continue reading Highlights from Drugs and the Class of ’78: Behaviors, Attitudes, and Recent National Trends