"For one thing, some gains in the reduction of teen drug use seem to have persisted past the most severe years of the pandemic. The study's authors wrote that for eighth and 10th graders, those who responded that they had had "no use of alcohol, cannabis, or nicotine by vaping or by cigarettes" was on the rise; the report used the phrase "historic high levels," in fact."
"What's more concerning are small but noticeable increases in teen heroin and cocaine use. Monitoring the Future found increases in heroin use in the three grades it monitors: eighth, 10th and 12th. The largest increase, from 0.2% to 0.9%, came in the last of those. Cocaine use also increased in both eighth graders and 12th graders, with the latter increasing from from 0.9% to 1.4%."
Abstention among eighth and tenth graders for alcohol, cannabis, and nicotine (vaping or cigarettes) has risen to historic high levels. Small but noticeable increases occurred in heroin use across eighth, tenth, and twelfth grades, with the largest jump in twelfth grade from 0.2% to 0.9%. Cocaine use rose among eighth and twelfth graders, with twelfth-grade prevalence increasing from 0.9% to 1.4%, while overall prevalence for both drugs remained under 2% in all grades. Lifetime nicotine patch use increased across all grades, with twelfth-grade use rising from seven percent to ten percent. Decades of repeated data collection enable assessment of whether recent upticks reflect real trends or statistical anomalies.
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