The percentage of students who reported using any illicit drug other than marijuana within the past year decreased significantly. participated, with some taking the survey at home and others while at school. Over 32,000 students enrolled in 319 public and private schools in the U.S. The results from this year’s survey were collected from February through June 2021. The Monitoring the Future survey is given annually to students in eighth, 10th and 12th grades, who self-report their drug use behaviors and attitudes. “Moving forward, it will be crucial to identify the pivotal elements of this past year that contributed to decreased drug use – whether related to drug availability, family involvement, differences in peer pressure, or other factors – and harness them to inform future prevention efforts.” These data are unprecedented and highlight one unexpected potential consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused seismic shifts in the day-to-day lives of adolescents,” Nora Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said in a statement. “We have never seen such dramatic decreases in drug use among teens in just a one-year period. But unlike their adult counterparts, young people overall did not increase their use of marijuana, alcohol and other drugs. The study by University of Michigan researchers found that teenagers reported increased feelings of boredom, anxiety, depression and loneliness in 2021 – no doubt fueled by pandemic-related fears and isolation. The findings represent the largest one-year decline in illicit drug use by teens since the Monitoring the Future survey began in 1975. Illicit drug use by 10th graders fell by nearly 12 percent in 2021, and by about 5% for eighth and 12th graders. teenagers declined significantly this year, according to the results of a new national survey that found the use of prescription opioids by adolescents fell to the lowest level in nearly two decades.
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