Monitoring the Future 2008: Charts II

Summary:

Page 127:

• "With regard to inhalants, the large separation of trend lines for the younger age groups in
  Figure 5-4 shows that, across many cohorts, use has dropped consistently and sharply with age, particularly in the first few years after high school.



• In fact, of all the populations covered by MTF, the 8th graders (not shown in Figure 5-4) have had the highest rate of use, indicating that the decline in use with age starts at least as early as 8th or 9th grade.



• Like cocaine, inhalants have shown a strong age effect, but unlike cocaine, use of inhalants declines with age."

Page 136:

• "Inhalant use has generally been quite a bit higher among males than females in all three
  age groups.



• The 19- to 22-year-old group showed a gradual upward shift from 1980 to
  1988, followed by a leveling for some years for both genders.



• In 1997, female inhalant use began to decline among 19- to 22-year-olds, followed by males in 2001; however, the gender gap did not diminish much with this decline until 2005, when there was a convergence.



• Among 23- to 26-year-olds there was a widening gender gap as use by males increased between 1992 and 1999, though a decline among males since then has narrowed the gap, and since 2005 the gap has been very small.



• In the oldest age stratum, use among males has consistently been slightly higher, though the prevalence of inhalant use is very low by this age.

Page 139:

• From 1987 (when data were first available) through 1994, rates of inhalant use remained
  relatively stable, quite low, and about equal in all four regions among 19- to 28-year-olds.



• Annual use then rose in the Northeast in 1995 and 1996 and remained higher than in the
  other regions through 2000, when it dropped back to rates comparable to the other three
  regions.



• Except for that divergence, the regions have moved very much in parallel for this
  class of drugs.



• Annual prevalence in 2008 is at low levels in this age group, between 0.9% and 1.7%.
  

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• The absolute levels of inhalant use have remained low in these age groups, particularly
  above age 22.



• However, during the mid- to late 1980s, there was a gradual increase in use
  among 19- to 22-year-olds in all community-size strata.



• No strong or consistent association with population density has appeared, though the very large cities have generally tended to have higher rates than the other areas among 19- to 22-year-olds, particularly in the period 1998 through 2000.



• Among 19- to 22-year-olds, there has been some falloff in use since the late 1990s in all population-density strata.
  

Page 148 - TABLE 5-1: Trends in Lifetime Prevalence of Various Types of Drugs among Respondents of Modal Ages 19–28

• 0.3 % increase from 2007 - 2008
• highest rate =1995

Page 153 - TABLE 5-3: Trends in 30-Day Prevalence of Various Types of Drugs

• 0.3% increase from 2007-2008
• Highest year =1999

Page 220: TABLE 7-2: Trends in Friends’ Use of Drugs as Estimated by
Respondents in Modal Age Groups of 18, 19–22, 23–26, 27–30, 35, 40, 45, and 50




Page 252: TABLE 8-1 Lifetime Prevalence of Use for Various Types of Drugs, 2008:
Full-Time College Students vs. Others among Respondents 1 to 4 Years beyond High School

Total

• Full Time College=4.9%
• Others=9.5%

Males

• Full Time College=5.4%
• Others=9.7%

Females

• Full Time College =4.7%
• Others =9.3%
  

Page 253: TABLE 8-2 Annual Prevalence of Use for Various Types of Drugs, 2008:
Full-Time College Students vs. Others among Respondents 1 to 4 Years beyond High School

Total

• Full Time College=1.1%
• Others=2.5%

Males:

• Full Time College=1.5%
• Others=2.3%

Females:

• Full Time College=0.9%
• Others =2.7%

Page 254: TABLE 8-3 : Thirty-Day Prevalence of Use for Various Types of Drugs, 2008:
Full-Time College Students vs. Others among Respondents 1 to 4 Years beyond High School

Total:

• Full time college=.4%
• Others=.6%

Males:

• Full time college=.5%
• Others =.8%

Females:

• Full time college=.3%
• others =.4%

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• Use of inhalants has been very low among college and noncollege respondents since
  1980, when rates were first measured (Figure 9-4).


• Twelfth graders have consistently had higher rates of inhalant use than either of these segments of the young adult population.


• All three groups have trended in parallel, though, with an increase in use from around
  1981 through 1995, followed by a long decline thereafter.


• The increase and decline were more pronounced among 12th graders.

Page 268: TABLE 9-1Trends in Lifetime Prevalence of Various Types of Drugs
among College Students 1 to 4 Years beyond High School

• 1.4% DECREASE from 2007-2008
• Highest =1989

Page 270: TABLE 9-2 Trends in Annual Prevalence of Various Types of Drugs
among College Students 1 to 4 Years beyond High School

• 1.4% DECREASE from 2007 -2008
• Highest =1988 +1997

Page 271: TABLE 9-3 Trends in 30-Day Prevalence of Various Types of Drugs
among College Students 1 to 4 Years beyond High School

• .2% INCREASE from 2007-2008
• Highest =1980 +1999

Page 278: FIGURE 9-4 Inhalants Trends in Annual Prevelance Among College Students vs Others 1 to 4 Years Beyond High School: