2002 Data From In-School Surveys
      of 8th, 10th, and 12th Grade Students

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      Drug and Alcohol Press Release and Tables

        Press Release (Text Only)

        Ecstasy use among American teens drops for the first time in recent years, and overall drug and alcohol use also decline in the year after 9/11. (Press Release, 12/16/02)

        The suggested citation for use of data from this press release is as follows:

        LD Johnston, PM O'Malley, JG Bachman. (December 16, 2002). Ecstasy use among American teens drops for the first time in recent years, and overall drug and alcohol use also decline in the year after 9/11. University of Michigan News and Information Services: Ann Arbor, MI. [On-line]. Available: www.monitoringthefuture.org; accessed MM/DD/YY.



        Data Tables

        Trends in Use of Various Drugs - Tables 1(a-c)- 5

        • Table 1 - Trends in Lifetime Prevalence of Use of Various Drugs for 8th, 10th, 12th Graders, 1991-2002

        • Table 2 - Trends in Annual and 30-Day Prevalence of Use of Various Drugs for 8th, 10th, 12th Graders, 1991-2002

        • Table 3 - Trends in 30-Day Prevalence of Daily Use of Various Drugs for 8th, 10th, and 12th Graders, 1991-2002

        • Footnotes for Tables 1 - 3

        • Table 4 - Long-Term Trends in Lifetime Prevalence of Use of Various Drugs for 12th Graders

        • Table 5 - Long-Term Trends in Annual Prevalence of Use of Various Drugs for 12th Graders

        • Table 6 - Long-Term Trends in Thirty-Day Prevalence of Various Drugs for 12th Graders

        • Table 7 - Long-Term Trends in Thirty-Day Prevalence of Daily Use of Various Drugs for 12th Graders

        • Footnotes for Tables 4 - 7


        Trends in Attitudes - Tables 8 - 11

        • Table 8 - Trends in Harmfulness of Drugs as Perceived by 8th and 10th Graders, 1991-2002

        • Table 9 - Long-Term Trends in Harmfulness of Drugs as Perceived by 12th Graders

        • Table 10 - Trends in Disapproval of Drug Use by 8th, 10th, and 12th Graders, 1991-2002

        • Table 11 - Long-Term Trends in Disapproval of Drug Use by 12th Graders


        Trends in Availability - Tables 12 & 13

        • Table 12 - Trends in Perceived Availability of Drugs for 8th, 10th, and 12th Graders, 1992-2002

        • Table 13 - Long-Term Trends in Perceived Availability of Drugs, 12th Graders


        Figures

        Various Illicit Drugs - Figures 1

        • Figure 1: Trends in Annual Prevalence of an Illicit Drug Use Index for Eighth, Tenth, and Twelfth Graders


        Specific Drugs - Figures 2 - 11

        • Figure 2: Marijuana: Trends in Annual Use, Risk, Disapproval, and Availability for 8th, 10th, and 12th Graders

        • Figure 3: Inhalants: Trends in Annual Use, Risk and Disapproval for 8th, 10th, and 12th Graders

        • Figure 4: LSD: Trends in Annual Use, Risk, Disapproval, and Availability for 8th, 10th and 12th Graders

        • Figure 5: MDMA (Ecstasy): Trends in Annual Use, Risk, Disapproval, and Availability for 8th, 10th and 12th Graders

        • Figure 6: Heroin: Trends in Annual Use, Risk, Disapproval, and Availability for 8th, 10th, and 12th Graders

        • Figure 7: Alcohol: Trends in Binge Drinking, Risk, Disapproval, and Availability for 8th, 10th, and 12th Graders

        • Figure 8: Steroids: Trends in Use, Risk, Disapproval, and Availability for 8th, 10th, and 12th Graders



      Cigarette Smoking Press Release and Tables

        Press Release (Text Only)

        Teen smoking declines sharply in 2002, more than offsetting large increases in the early 1990s. (Press Release, 12/16/02)


        The suggested citation for use of data from this press release is as follows:

        LD Johnston, PM O'Malley, JG Bachman. (December 16, 2002). Teen smoking declines sharply in 2002, more than offsetting large increases in the early 1990s. University of Michigan News and Information Services: Ann Arbor, MI.[On-line]. Available: www.monitoringthefuture.org; accessed MM/DD/YY.


        Data Tables

        Trends on Cigarette Smoking - Tables 1 - 4

        • Table 1 - Long-Term Trends in Prevalence of Use of Cigarettes for 8th, 10th, and 12th Graders

        • Table 2 - Cigarettes: Trends in Thirty-Day Prevalence of Use by Subgroups for 8th and 10th Graders

        • Table 3 - Cigarettes: Trends in Thirty-Day Prevalence of Use by Subgroups for 12th Graders

        • Table 4 - Trends in Availability and Attitudes about Smoking One or More Packs of Cigarettes per Day, for 8th, 10th, and 12th Graders


        Figure

        Trends in Prevalence, Attitudes, and Availability

        • Figure 1: Cigarettes: Trends in 30-Day Use, Risk, Disapproval, and Availability for 8th, 10th, and 12th Graders




      Publicly-available Monitoring the Future microdata from the cross-sectional, in-school surveys may be obtained through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA), a part of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).

      SAMHDA/ICPSR
      The University of Michigan
      P.O. Box 1248
      Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248
      http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA.

      Note that these data sets have had all personal indentifiers removed, and other information which might be used to impute identities has been either altered or removed altogether to protect study respondents.


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