NEW YORK—Teen drug use hasn’t rebounded from its drop during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results from a large annual national survey released Tuesday.
About two-thirds of 12th graders this year said they hadn’t used alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes, or e-cigarettes in the previous 30 days. That’s the largest proportion abstaining since the annual survey started measuring abstinence in 2017.
Among 10th graders, 80 percent said they hadn’t used any of those substances recently, another record. Among 8th graders, 90 percent didn’t use any of them, the same as was reported in the previous survey….