Richard A. Miech

Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research.

Ph.D., Sociology, University of North Carolina

Research Interests: Dr. Miech's work focuses on trends in substance use, with an emphasis on disentangling how these trends vary by age, historical period, and birth cohort membership. His research interests also include the causes and consequences of substance use over the life course.

Monitoring the Future

ramiech@umich.edu

734-647-1343

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Miech and MTF study featured in BBC News

Miech in WSJ: "considerable jump" in adolescent vaping this year

Monitoring the Future data used in WSJ report on Gen Z

MTF data show high school seniors devote about 6 hours per day to digital media

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Miech, Richard A., Yvonne M. Terry-McElrath, Patrick M. O'Malley, and Lloyd Johnston. 2019. "Increasing marijuana use for black adolescents in the United States: A test of competing explanations." Addictive Behaviors, 93: 59-64.

Miech, Richard A., Lloyd Johnston, Patrick M. O'Malley, and Yvonne M. Terry-McElrath. 2019. "The national prevalence of adolescent nicotine use in 2017: Estimates taking into account student reports of substances vaped." Addictive Behaviors Reports, 9: 100159.

Miech, Richard A., Lloyd Johnston, Patrick M. O'Malley, Jerald Bachman, and Megan E. Patrick. 2019. "Adolescent Vaping and Nicotine Use in 2017-2018 - U.S. National Estimates." New England Journal of Medicine, 380(2): 192-193.

Keyes, Katherine, Caroline Rutherford, and Richard A. Miech. 2019. "Historical trends in the grade of onset and sequence of cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use among adolescents from 1976-2016: implications for ìGatewayî patterns in adolescence." Drug and alcohol dependence, 194: 51-58.

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High-intensity drinking and related consequences: Daily data from a national sample aged 19 to 22 (NIAAA)

Center for the Assessment of the Public Health Impact of Tobacco Regulations (NCI)

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

Monitoring the Future: A Cohort-Sequential Panel Study of Drug Use, Ages 19-60 (NIDA)

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

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)

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