Volume I: Secondary School Students 2007 (707 pp., NIH Publication No. 08-6418A). Volume II: College Students and Adults Ages 19-45 (319 pp., NIH Publication No. 08-6418B). Lloyd D. Johnson, Patrick M. O'Malley, Jerald G. Bachman, John E. Schulenberg. Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 2008.
The Monitoring the Future (MTF) study is an ongoing series of national surveys of American adolescents and adults that has provided the nation with a vital window into the important, but largely hidden, problem behaviors of illegal drug use, alcohol use, tobacco use, anabolic steroid use, and psychotherapeutic drug use. For nearly a third of a century, the study has provided a clearer view of the changing topography of these problems among adolescents and young and middle-aged adults, a better understanding of the dynamics of factors that drive some of these problems, and a better understanding of some of their consequences. It has also given policy-makers and nongovernmental organizations in the field some approaches for intervention.
Both volumes are also available as PDFs on the Monitoring the Future web site: http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/pubs.html
