Lloyd Johnston

Funded Research:

Monitoring the Future: A Cohort-Sequential Panel Study of Drug Use, Ages 19-55 (NIDA)

Monitoring the Future: Drug Use and Lifestyles of American Youth (NIDA)

Youth, Education, and Society (YES) Study (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Drug Use and Life Styles of American Youth (NIDA)

A Cohort-Sequential Panel Study of Drug Use, Ages 19-50 (NIDA)

Televised Advertising and Smoking Behaviors (NCI)

Measuring Conditions in American Secondary Schools Related to Childhood Obesity (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Angus Campbell Collegiate Research Professor and Distinguished Senior Research Scientist at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and principal investigator of the Monitoring the Future study since its inception in 1975. A social psychologist by training, he has served as advisor to the White House, Congress, and many other national and international bodies and has conducted research on a wide range of issues, including the use of alcohol, tobacco, and various illicit drugs; institutional trust; policy evaluation; the functioning of American high schools; behaviors influencing the spread of HIV; and most recently, childhood obesity. His research interests also include international comparative studies and the application of survey research to social problems generally.

Recent Publications

Books

Johnston, Lloyd, and Patrick M. O'Malley. 2009. Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2008 (2 volumes). Bethesda, Md. : National Institute on Drug Abuse, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health,.

Bachman, Jerald, Patrick M. O'Malley, John E. Schulenberg, Lloyd Johnston, P. Freedman-Doan, and E. E. Messersmith. 2008. The education-drug use connection: How successes and failures in school relate to adolescent smoking, drinking, drug use, and delinquency. New York.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/Taylor & Francis. Abstract.

Johnston, Lloyd, Patrick M. O'Malley, Jerald Bachman, and John E. Schulenberg. 2007. Monitoring the Future national results on adolescent drug use: Overview of key findings, 2006 (NIH Publication No. 07-6202). Bethesda, MD : National Institute on Drug Abuse. Abstract.

Johnston, Lloyd, Patrick M. O'Malley, Jerald Bachman, and John E. Schulenberg. 2006. Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2005. Volume I: Secondary school students (NIH Publication No. 06-5883). Bethesda, MD : National Institute on Drug Abuse. Abstract.

Johnston, Lloyd, Patrick M. O'Malley, Jerald Bachman, and John E. Schulenberg. 2006. Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use , 1975-2005. Volume II: college students and adults ages 19-45 (NIH Publication No. 06-5884). Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse. Abstract.

Bachman, Jerald, Lloyd Johnston, and Patrick M. O'Malley. 2006. Monitoring the Future: Questionnaire responses from the nation's high school seniors, 2005. Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research.

Johnston, Lloyd, and Patrick M. O'Malley. 2003. Obesity among American adolescents : tracking the problem and searching for causes. Ann Arbor, MI. : University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research.

Yamaguchi, Ryoko, Lloyd Johnston, and Patrick M. O'Malley. 2003. Drug testing in schools: policies, practices, and association with student drug use. Ann Arbor, Mich. : Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.

Bachman, Jerald, Patrick M. O'Malley, John E. Schulenberg, Lloyd Johnston, Alison L. Bryant, and Alicia C. Merline. 2002. The decline of substance use in young adulthood : changes in social activities, roles, and beliefs. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Journal Articles

Terry-McElrath, Y., Patrick M. O'Malley, and Lloyd Johnston. Forthcoming. "Middle and High School Drug Testing and Student Illicit Drug Use: A National Study 1998-2011." Journal of Adolescent Health. DOI. Abstract.

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