New results from the Monitoring the Future Survey show substance use trends in adolescents in 2024. The data show that overall substance use has continued to decline since the pandemic.
The newest results show data from February-June 2024 from 24,257 8th, 10th, and 12th graders.
More than half of students from each grade surveyed reported abstaining from marijuana, alcohol, and nicotine in the past 30 days. The number of 10th and 12th graders abstaining from these substances went up in 2024.
The amount of 10th and 12th graders using alcohol declined, but nicotine pouch use increased among those grades.
According to the National Institute of Health’s release on the survey, this was the first time Delta-8-THC was measured for 8th and 10th graders.
Additionally, “Use of narcotics other than heroin (including Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet, etc.) are only reported among 12th graders, and decreased in 2024, with 0.6% reporting use within the past 12 months (reflecting an all-time low, down from a high of 9.5% in 2004).”
