“I suspect their advice would carry weight [with teens].”
Monitoring the Future, an ongoing study of the opinions and beliefs of American adolescents, is conducted for NIDA by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
The 2010 survey included approximately 46,000 students in grades 8, 10, and 12.
Monitoring the Future is funded by the National Institutes of Health. More detailed study results are available at http://monitoringthefuture.org.