Monitoring the Future

Since 1975, Monitoring the Future has been conducting an annual survey with researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a branch of the National Institutes of Health. For 49 years and counting, this survey has been administered to students in eighth, 10th, and 12th […]

2022 marked the 48th year of data collection by Monitoring the Future (MTF). Back in 1975, MTF began conducting in-school surveys for students in eighth, tenth, and twelfth grades asking them to self-report their substance use over various time periods (past month, past 12 months, and lifetime). The purpose was to understand the ages (changes […]

2021 was a year of many changes for adolescents including a return to in-person learning in the midst of the ever-evolving nature of the COVID-19 pandemic. While many hypothesized that the stressors caused by the pandemic would lead to an increase in substance abuse among adolescents, teens who reported substance abuse actually decreased significantly across […]

2020 was a challenging year that brought significant stress — and, as new survey findings show, a slight increase in adolescent over-the-counter cough (OTC) medicine abuse. The 2020 Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey reveals that 3.7% of teens reported using OTC cough medicine containing dextromethorphan (DXM) to get high, an increase from 2.8% in 2019. […]

Every month, we keep you informed on the latest studies and research in our “Not My Teen” blog series. Today, we’re looking at the 2018 results from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and University of Michigan’s annual drug abuse survey, Monitoring the Future. The 2018 results from the National Institute on Drug Abuse […]

Last week, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the University of Michigan released the 2017 results of the annual survey, Monitoring the Future. The survey measures drug, alcohol, and cigarette use and related attitudes among teens nationwide. This year, the percentage of teens using over-the-counter (OTC) cough medicine containing dextromethorphan (DXM) to get high remains at […]