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Steroid Use In 2002-2003, tenth and twelfth grade males who were highly involved with an athletic team were more likely than those who did not participate to have used steroids in the last year. In grade 12, the contrast was 5.1 percent for males participating in athletics to a great extent compared with 2.2 percent for those not participating at all...> View Indicator Daily Cigarette Use Overall, daily cigarette use among eighth, tenth, and twelfth grade students has declined dramatically in the last decade, falling by more than half among eighth and tenth graders between 1996 and 2006. In recent years, however, this decline has halted among eighth and tenth graders... > View Indicator Binge Drinking Binge drinking among eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders declined modestly during the late 1990's and early 2000's. However, the decline among students of the lower two grade levels has slowed in recent years... > View Indicator Heavy Drinking Among Parents Heavy drinking among fathers declined slightly between 2003 and 2004, with the percentage of fathers who reported heavy drinking at least once per month decreasing from 14 percent to 12 percent... > View Indicator Parental Smoking The percentage of parents of children under age 18 who report being current smokers declined overall between 2000 and 2004, from 25 percent to 21 percent... > View Indicator Mothers Who Smoke While Pregnant The percentage of births to women who reported smoking during pregnancy dropped substantially during the 1990s, from 19.5 percent in 1989 to 10.2 percent in 2004 (preliminary estimate). However, over one-quarter of those with a low level of education (nine to eleven years of education) reported smoking during pregnancy in 2003, the most recent year for which those data are available... > View Indicator Marijuana Use The percentage of eighth and tenth grade students who use marijuana rose in the early 1990s, leveled off towards the end of the decade, and has since decreased, with 7 percent of eighth graders and 15 percent of tenth graders reporting use in the past month in 2005. The percentage of twelfth graders who used marijuana in the past month has fluctuated substantially and was at 20 percent in 2005... > View Indicator Illicit Drug Use Other than Marijuana In 2003, nearly one in ten twelfth grade students reported using illicit drugs other than marijuana in the past month...> View Indicator Substance Free Youth The percentage of twelfth grade students who report being substance free (no cigarettes, no alcohol, and no illicit drugs) in the last 30 days increased from 26 percent in 1976 to a high of 48 percent in 2006. The percentages of eighth and tenth graders abstaining from substances remain at their highest since 1991, at 79 percent and 60 percent, respectively> View Indicator Drunk Driving Between 2003 and 2005 the percent of high school males who report driving after drinking dropped slightly, from 15 percent to 12 percent, continuing an ongoing trend... > View Indicator
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