Whos Using Amphetamines?
The results of the 2004 Monitoring the Future (MTF) study were released to the public on December 21, 2004. Conducted by the University of Michigan (U of M), it was sponsored by research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Since 1991, U of M has tracked patterns of drug use and attitudes toward drugs among students in the eighth, tenth, and twelfth grades. (Prior to that, from 1975 to 1990, the MTF survey was limited to twelfth graders.) The 2004 MTF survey results indicate that nonprescription amphetamine use among students in the eighth and tenth grades had fallen. Researchers noted “a steady decline among eighth graders since 1996; in fact, their annual… use has fallen by almost half since then,” from 9.1 to 4.9 percent. Amphetamine use was also down among tenth graders, “but not among twelfth graders, who… remain near their recent peak levels of use.” According to MTF charts for 2003 to 2004, about one in every ten high school seniors reported using amphetamine
