abstract:The Monitoring the Future (MTF) study, also known as the National High School Senior Survey,Purpose and Design of Monitoring the Future is a long-term epidemiological study that surveys trends in legal and illicit drug use among American adolescents and adults as well as personal levels of perceived risk and disapproval for each drug. The survey is conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, funded by research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, one of the National Institutes of Health.
This tracks with the other major survey, MonitoringtheFuture, which looks at alcohol use and, specifically, binge drinking among eight, 10 and 12th-graders, in terms of having had five plus drinks in a row at least once in the past two weeks.
However, the 2011 edition of MonitoringtheFuture, a study of the behaviors, attitudes and values of American secondary school students, notes that 22 percent of 12th-graders reported episodes of heavy drinking and 40 percent had consumed alcohol in the previous 30 days.