Megan E. Patrick, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Monitoring the Future Panel Study
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Principal Investigator of the Monitoring the Future Panel Study, which is a national study following former school age MTF participants from ages 18 to 65 since 1976, and co-investigator on the MTF Main study. Her published research focuses on the development of substance use and consequences across the lifespan. Her interests include motivations for substance use, the prevention of health risk behaviors, statistical methods for modeling behavior and behavior change, and mobile and web-based survey methodology. She has been the PI of 10+ NIH-funded projects and Co-Investigator on many others. Her other current NIH-funded R01 projects focus on high-intensity drinking, simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use, and adaptive interventions to reduce consequences of young adult substance use.
Research Projects
Principal Investigator
R01 DA016575
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Monitoring the Future: A Cohort-Sequential Panel Study of Drug Use, Ages 19-65
R01 DA016575
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Monitoring the Future: A Cohort-Sequential Panel Study of Drug Use, Ages 19-65 Supplement #1 – Early Panel Pilot
R01 DA016575
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Monitoring the Future: A Cohort-Sequential Panel Study of Drug Use, Ages 19-65 Supplement #2 – Solberg Diversity Supplement
R01 AA023504
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
High-Intensity Drinking and Related Consequences: Daily Data from a National Sample Aged 19 to 22
Co-Investigator
R01 DA001411
National Institute on Drug Abuse
PI Richard Miech
Monitoring the Future: Drug Use and Lifestyles of American Youth
R03 AA030666
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
PI Kasey Creswell
Prevalence and developmental trajectories of solitary alcohol use in US young adults
75F40121C00148
Food and Drug Administration
PI Sean McCabe
A Mosaic Approach for Understanding Stimulant Use, Misuse, and Use Disorder Trajectories
R03 HD107135
National Institute of Child Health and Development
PI Christopher Mehus
Spanking and hitting children: Trends and changes in risk factors in consecutive, longitudinal, national samples of parents from 1993-2022
R01 AA026861
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
PIs Katherine Keyes & Justin Jager
Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Gender Differences in Alcohol Use and Alcohol Use Disorders in 47 National, Longitudinally-Followed Cohorts
R37 CA214787
National Cancer Institute
PI Nancy Fleischer
The Impact of Tobacco Control Policies on Health Equity in the United States
Recent Publications
Patrick, M. E., Peterson, S. J., Terry-McElrath, Y. M., Rogan, S. E. B., & Solberg, M. A. (2024). Trends in coping reasons for marijuana use among U.S. adolescents from 2016-2022. Addictive Behaviors, 148, 107845.
Arterberry, B. J., Calhoun, B. H., Lee, C. M., & Patrick, M. E. (2023). Young adult physical, social, and temporal contexts of simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 84(3), 398-406.
Arterberry, B. J., Parks, M. J., & Patrick, M. E. (2023). The moderating role of mental health on the association between COVID-related stress, isolation, and economic hardship and using substances to cope. Preventive Medicine Reports, 34, 102229.
Calhoun, B. H., Graupensperger, S., Fairlie, A. M., Walukevich-Dienst, K., Patrick, M. E., & Lee, C. M. (2023). “Wake-and-bake” cannabis use: Predictors and cannabis-related outcomes of use shortly after waking. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 248, 109937.
Carpenter, S. M., Yap, J., Patrick, M. E., Morrell, N., Dziak, J. J., Almirall, D., Yoon, C., & Nahum-Shani, I. (2023). Self-relevant appeals to engage in self-monitoring of alcohol use: A microrandomized trial. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 37(3), 434-446.
Duckworth, J. C., Graupensperger, S., Schultz, N., Gilson, M. S., Fairlie, A. M., Patrick, M. E., and Lee, C. M. (2023). Alcohol and marijuana use predicting next-day absenteeism and engagement at school and work: A daily study of young adults. Addictive Behaviors, 142, 107670.
Fairlie, A. M., Calhoun, B. H., Graupensperger, S., Patrick, M. E., & Lee, C. M. (2023). Daily-level simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use and associations with alcohol use, marijuana use, and negative consequences in a young adult community sample. Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, 47(9), 1690-1701.
Graupensperger, S., Calhoun, B. H., Fleming, C. N., Patrick, M. E., & Lee, C. M. (2023). Longitudinal examination of high-risk drinking contexts: Daytime drinking, pregaming, and drinking games linked to high-risk alcohol use and negative consequences in young adults. Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research, 47(7), 1364-1376.
Graupensperger, S., Walukevich-Dienst, K., Patrick, M. E., & Lee, C. M. (2023). The protective role of perceived control on associations between job loss, financial difficulties, and substance use among young adults early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Prevention Science, 24(6), 1239-1248.
Jager, J., Keyes, K. M., Son, D., Patrick, M. E. Platt, J., & Schulenberg, J. E. (2023). Age 18-30 trajectories of binge drinking frequency and prevalence across the past 30 years for men and women: Delineating when and why historical trends reversed across age. Development and Psychopathology, 35(3), 1308-1322.
