The patterns of drug use over the last two decades (1994-2014) for alcohol, cigarettes, and illicit drugs for 8th, 10th, and 12th-graders has shown that alcohol, cigarette and illicit drug use has decreased over the last two decades. From this survey we know that drug use with teens in the survey has decreased. Personally I believe that the patterns of drug use are going in the right direction which is down but I do not see the problem going away. Consumption of drugs has been a part of many societies even before ours. What I found to interest me is that even though illicit drug use is down it seems to be more stable than alcohol and cigarette usage in the downward trend. As a health educator I feel that there is more information through
