National Institute on Drug Abuse to Announce Results of 2010 Monitoring the Future Survey

The National Institute on Drug Abuse will announce the results of its 2010 Monitoring the Future survey Tuesday, Dec. 14th at 10 a.m. in Washington, DC.

The survey, funded by NIDA and produced by the University of Michigan—tracks annual drug abuse trends of 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade students, including attitudes and perceived risk of specific illicit drugs. It is one of three major polling instruments the Department of Health and Human Services uses to monitor the nation’s substance abuse patterns. Information from these surveys helps identify potential drug problem areas, assess whether federal drug prevention efforts are effective, and ensure that resources are targeted to areas of greatest need.

The findings of the survey are a great opportunity for your coalition to issue a news statement in response to the results. Stay tuned for an email from CADCA on the morning of the 14th that will include a news release template that you can tailor to your local needs and send out to your local media contacts. CADCA will send out its own news release that day and we will publish the results of the survey in the Dec. 16th edition of Coalitions Online. We will also send out a tweet as soon as the results are published, so be sure to follow CADCA on Twitter (@cadca), or you can check our Facebook page.