The URL can be used to link to this page

Home My WebLink About2020/01/07 Public Comments - Rapp z Written Communica ions Item # M Name /CSC Drug Free AMERICA Foundation,Inc. data Monitoring urgent preventionneed for marijuana / / vaping Teen vaping rises significantly The National Institute of Health just released data from their Monitoring the Future Survey, which is a survey conducted annually to measure 8th, 10th, and 12th graders lifetime, past year, and past month substance use in addition to their attitudes about substance use. This year, 42,531 students from 396 public and private schools participated in the survey and while declines in use of prescription drugs, alcohol, and cigarette smoking were observed, vaping and marijuana use among teens increased significantly. Here are a few of the disturbing findings just published: Marijuana Vaping • Past year vaping of marijuana use more than doubled, with similar rates observed between 10th and 12th graders at 19.4% and 20.8%, respectively. • 12th graders past month vaping of marijuana almost doubled, rising from 7.5%to 14%, which is the second largest increase in any substance over a one year period since the survey began in 1975. Nicotine Vaping • 11.7% of 12th graders reported daily nicotine vaping, in contrast with only 2.4% who reported daily cigarette smoking. • Past month vaping of nicotine reported is equivalent to: • 1 in 4 12th graders • 1 in 5 10th graders • 1 in 10 8th graders Attitudes on Vaping • 60.9% of teens reported vaping for experimental purposes • 41.7% reported vaping due to tasting good • Vaping due to being hooked more than doubled among 12 graders, rising from 3.6% to 8.1%. Marijuana Use • Marijuana was the only illicit drug that did not have a low past year rate among 12 graders, with 35.7% reporting past year use of marijuana compared to only 3% or less of 12th graders reporting past year use of other drugs. • Daily marijuana use significantly increased from 2018 to 2019 for 8th and 10th graders. With the continued increase in the number of cases and deaths attributed to using THC containing products in e-cigarettes or vaping products and the expansion of medical and recreational marijuana, these findings highlight the critical need for strategies aimed at preventing teen marijuana and vaping use. UT 12.19.19 Survey: Teen pot and nicotine vaping soaring Alcohol cigarette usage is declining federal study finds Teenagers are drinking less alcohol, smoking fewer cigarettes and trying fewer hard drugs, new federal survey data shows. But these public health gains have been offset by a sharp increase in vaping of marijuana and nicotine. These diverging trend lines, published today, are among the findings in the Monitoring the Future survey —an annual study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, or NIDA, of eighth, 10th and 12th graders. Most troubling to public health experts in this year's report were sharp increases in marijuana vaping. Of 12th graders surveyed, 14 percent said they had vaped marijuana in the past month, nearly double the 7.5 percent reported a year ago. The percentage of teens who said they had vaped marijuana once or more over the past year essentially doubled during the past two years as well, rising to 7 percent for eighth graders, 19.4 percent for 10th graders and 20.8 percent for 12th graders. The survey found that 3.5 percent of 12th graders and 3 percent of 10th graders report daily use, the first year the researchers had asked that question. The data also echoed statistics that the government released in September about e-cigarettes, with a quarter of high school seniors reporting that they had vaped nicotine within the past month, along with 1 in 4 10th graders. Vaping of marijuana was at the root of a public health crisis that unfolded this summer when more than 2,000 people across the country, many in their teens and 20s, became gravely ill with a lung infection that left many of them unable to breathe on their own. Most of the patients said they had vaped THC, the high-inducing ingredient in marijuana. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 2,409 cases of hospitalization associated with vaping lung illness nationwide and 52 deaths. (Many of those who died were middle-aged or older, though one was 17.) Public health experts have said the cause is not clear but appears to stem from the way the lungs struggle to process certain oils used in black-market marijuana vaping devices; they have identified vitamin F acetate, an ingredient in some products, as a possible cause.