Monitoring the Future is a long-term epidemiological study that has been tracking both legal and illicit drug use among Americans since 1975. The study is conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor.
According to the survey, narcotic drug use has consistently fallen among college students since it peaked in 2006 with 8.8 percent of those surveyed reporting narcotic drug abuse in the previous 12 months. By 2015, that number dropped to 3.3 percent.
“It appears that college students, at least, are hearing and heeding the warnings about the very considerable dangers of using narcotic drugs,” said Lloyd Johnston, PhD, the study’s principal investigator and research professor at the Institute for Social Research.
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