Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults. Each year, a total of some 50,000 8th, 10th and 12th grade students are surveyed (12th graders since 1975, and 8th and 10th graders since 1991.) In addition, annual follow-up questionnaires are mailed to a sample of each graduating class for a number of years after their initial participation.

National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2003, Volumes I & II, are now available. Click here for more information.

Overview of Key Findings, 2003 is now available. This volume presents an overview of the key findings from the 2003 survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students. Click here to see the complete text of the Overview.

New 2003 Press Release "Ecstasy use falls for second year in a row, overall teen drug use drops." Click here for text and associated tables and figures.

New 2003 Press Release "Teen smoking continues to decline in 2003, but declines are slowing." Click here for text and associated tables and figures.

The 1999 European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) has been released. Modeled after Monitoring the Future, this series of surveys is carried out as a collaborative project of 30 European countries. ESPAD is charged with collecting comparable data on alcohol, tobacco and drug use among 15-16-year-old students. The report compares these data with Monitoring the Future 10th-grade data, with the long-term goal of comparing trends between countries. To view the text of the ESPAD press release click here or for ordering information, click here.

The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood: Changes in Social Activities, Roles, and Beliefs examines why the new freedoms and responsibilities of young adulthood cause substance use to change. This book explores how changes in social and religious experiences and changes in attitudes towards substance use among young adults are related to changes in substance use, family transitions, living arrangements, education, and employment. Based on the nationwide Monitoring the Future surveys of young people followed from high school into adulthood, the research covers the last 25 years, a period when drug use and views about drugs underwent important changes.

The Monitoring the Future Study has been funded under a series of investigator-initiated competing research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a part of the National Institutes of Health. MTF is conducted at the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.

For additional information regarding the Monitoring the Future study, please e-mail us at MTFinfo@isr.umich.edu.