NEW YORK (December 11, 2007) -- The 2007 Monitoring the Future study (MTF) released today in Washington, D.C., reports promising trends with significant declines in the overall use of illicit drugs among teenagers in the past year, as well as a notable reduction in tobacco use among eighth graders. The decreases are the continuation of a larger downward trend for all measured age groups marking steady long‐term reductions in youth drug use over the past six years (2001-2007).
One of the areas worth noting is the decline in steroid use among our nation's youth. Since 2001, there has been a statistically significant decrease of 33 percent among 8th, 10th and 12th graders who have reported past month use of steroids and a 45 percent decrease in past year use over the same period.
For more information about steroid abuse and the collaboration between the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and Major League baseball, please visit the web at: http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Steroids/index.html
