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By Robert Preidt
HealthDay reporter
TUESDAY December 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) – After years of increases, nicotine and marijuana vaping among us teens capped this year, but they remain high, the researchers report.
Data from the most recent annual Monitoring the Future survey, conducted by the University of Michigan Institute of Social Research, shows that from 2017 to 2019, the percentage of teens who reported vaping nicotine in the past Last 12 months doubled: 7.5% to 16.5% among eighth graders; from 15.8% to 30.7%, among 10th grade students; and from 18.8% to 35.3% among 12th grade students.
In 2020, the rates remained stable at 16.6%, 30.7% and 34.5%, respectively. And between 2019 and 2020, every day or almost every day (20 times in the last 30 days) nicotine vaping fell from 6.8% to 3.6% among 10th graders and from 11.6% to 5.3% among 12th graders, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded survey of United States.
“The rapid rise of nicotine in adolescents vaping recent years has been unprecedented and of deep concern as we know that nicotine is highly addictive and can be administered in high doses by vaping devices, which may also contain other toxic chemicals that can be harmful when inhaled, ”said Nora Volkow, director of NIDA, in a press release from the agency.
“It is encouraging to see a stabilization of this trend, even if the rates are still very high,” she added.
The survey also found that after a double increase in the past two years, rates of marijuana vaping last year also remained stable in 2020: 8.1% of eighth graders; 19.1% of 10th grade students and 22.1% of 12th grade students.
Daily marijuana vaping has dropped by more than half from 2019, to 1.1% among 10th graders and 1.5% among 12th graders in 2020.
Another finding of the survey was a sharp drop from 2019 to 2020 in the use of Juul vaping devices among teens in the top two grades. Device use over the past 12 months has increased from 28.7% to 20% for 10th grade students and from 28.4% to 22.7% for 12th grade students.
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There has been little change in alcohol the use or use of cigarettes in recent years. Non-medical use of amphetamines among eighth-graders fell from 3.5% in 2017 to 5.3% in 2020, but there have been recent declines in use last year among 10th and 12th graders, 4 , 3% for both, and significant reductions over five years.
Consumption of inhalants over the past 12 months fell from 3.8% to 6.1% among eighth grade students between 2016 and 2020. There was low all-time inhalant use among grade eight students. 12th.
Other drug use in the past year remains relatively low among Grade 12 students: 3.9% for LSD; 2.4% for synthetic cannabinoids; 2.9% for cocaine; 1.8% for MDMA (ecstasy); 1.4% for methamphetamine and 0.3% for heroin.
More information
The American Academy of Pediatrics has more on vaping.
SOURCE: US National Institute on Drug Abuse, press release, December 15, 2020
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