Infographics: Teen Drug Use

This infographic of the NIH’s 2019 Monitoring the Future survey highlights drug use trends among the Nation’s youth for marijuana, alcohol, cigarettes, and prescription drugs.

This infographic of the NIH’s 2019 Monitoring the Future survey highlights drug use trends among the Nation’s youth for vaping.

The 2018 Monitoring the Future College Students and Young Adults survey shows trends in the use of marijuana, alcohol, nicotine, and synthetic drugs in college students and non-college peers.

Use of opioids during pregnancy can result in a drug withdrawal syndrome in newborns called neonatal abstinence syndrome or neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NAS/NOWS). Every ~15 minutes, 1 baby is born suffering from opioid withdrawal.

This infographic of the NIH’s 2018 Monitoring the Future survey highlights drug use trends among the Nation’s youth for vaping, marijuana, alcohol, cigarettes, and prescription/OTC drugs.

Driving while under the influence of legal or illegal substances puts the driver, passengers, and others who share the road in danger.

The 2017 Monitoring the Future College Students and Young Adults survey shows trends in the use of marijuana, alcohol, nicotine, and synthetic drugs in college students and non-college peers.

This infographic summarizes data on the comorbidity between substance use and mental disorders and the rates at which people get treatment for these conditions.

This infographic summarizes a study that finds that nearly half of opioid-related overdose deaths involve fentanyl.

Esta gráfica informativa muestra que los cannabinoides sintéticos, como la K2 o spice, no son drogas naturales y pueden tener efectos peligrosos para la salud.

This infographic of the NIH’s 2017 Monitoring the Future survey highlights drug use trends among the Nation’s youth for marijuana, alcohol, cigarettes, e-cigarettes (e-vaporizers), and prescription opioids. 

This infographic shows that synthetic cannabinoids, like K2 or Spice, are not natural drugs and can lead to dangerous health effects.

The 2016 Monitoring the Future College Students and Young Adults survey shows trends in the use of marijuana, alcohol, nicotine, and other drugs in college students and non-college peers.

This infographic of the NIH’s 2016 Monitoring the Future survey highlights drug use trends among the Nation’s youth for marijuana, alcohol, cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and prescription opioids. 

The 2015 Monitoring the Future College Students and Adults survey shows trends in the use of alcohol, marijuana, nicotine, cocaine, and other drugs in college students and non-college peers.

El tratamiento para el mal uso de los medicamentos asistentes para dormir y la cesación de la nicotina.

This infographic explores e-cigarette use among teens, including usage rates compared with cigarette use, potential for e-cig use to lead to smoking, and what teens say is in their e-cig, as well as avenues for teens’ exposure to e-cig advertising.

More young adults use prescription drugs nonmedically than any other age group.
 

This infographic shows differences in substance use trends between women and men for marijuana use disorder, abuse of prescription pain medicines, treatment admissions for sleeping aid misuse, and nicotine cessation.

The 2014 Monitoring the Future College Students and Adults survey shows trends in alcohol, marijuana, nicotine, and stimulant use in college students and non-college peers.

Conducir drogado es conducir bajo el efecto de sustancias legales o ilegales.

From 2005 to 2009, 1 in 3 persons with HIV was a current drug user or binged on alcohol

Teens who abuse Rx opioids often combine them with marijuana or alcohol.

By gender, 14% of male and 8% of female high school seniors abused synthetic marijuana.

Healthcare providers often put off antiretroviral therapy for HIV patients who inject drugs--even those with high levels of infection. A new study shows the surprising scope of this treatment disparity in North America.

Young people are abusing prescription drugs at alarming rates. These drugs act on the same brain systems as illegal drugs and pose similar risks for dangerous health consequences, including later addiction.