2012 Overview of Key Findings is now available. This report presents a summary of the national results on adolescent drug use, with a particular emphasis on recent trends in the use of licit and illicit drugs. The full text of this volume is available.

      2012 Press Release "The rise in teen marijuana use stalls, synthetic marijuana use levels, and use of 'bath salts' is very low." See the text and associated tables and figures.

      2012 Press Release "Decline in teen smoking continues into 2012." See the text and associated tables and figures.

      2011 HIV/AIDS: Risk & Protective Behaviors among American Young Adults, 2004-2011 is now available. This report focuses on a range of behaviors of young adult high school graduates ages 21–30 in the general population related to the spread of the HIV virus responsible for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). For the first time, data on 35- and 40-year-old respondents is included. The full text of this volume is available.

      Volume II is a 314-page monograph covering many of the same subjects as Volume I for college students and adults through age 50, including trends among American college students (1980 through 2011). You may download the complete volume or see the suggested citation.

      Volume I is a 760-page monograph giving the 1975-2011 national trends in smoking, drinking, and illicit drug use among American secondary school students. It provides a much more in-depth treatment than the Overview of Key Findings, covering subgroup differences, attitudes and beliefs about use, etc. You may download the complete volume or see the suggested citation.




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