Megan E. Patrick, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Monitoring the Future Panel Study
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Associate Director, 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
Calhoun, B. H., Walukevich-Dienst, K., Graupensperger, S., Patrick, M. E., & Lee, C. M. (2024). Morning cannabis use in young adults: Associations with overall levels of use, negative consequences, and cannabis use disorder symptoms across 2.5 years. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 256, 111114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111114
Evans-Polce, R. J., Maggs, J. L., Lanza, S. T., & Patrick, M. E. (2024). Negative consequences associated with daily alcohol use as a nonlinear function of number of drinks in a daily diary study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 256, 111089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111089
Guttmannova, K., Calhoun, B. H., Duckworth, J. C., Martinez, G., Fleming, C. B., Patrick, M. E., & Lee, C. M. (2024). Age-related patterns in high-risk alcohol and cannabis use and their associations with positive and negative affect in young adulthood. Addictive Behaviors, 150, 107909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107909
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 to 2022. Addictive Behaviors, 148, 107845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107845
Walukevich-Dienst, K., Calhoun, B. H., Graupensperger, S., Patrick, M. E., & Lee, C. M. (2024). Predictors of morning cannabis use among young adults: Between- and within-person associations from 24 consecutive months of data. Addictive Behaviors, 149, 107908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107908
Keyes, K. M., & Patrick, M. E. (2023). Hallucinogen use among young adults ages 19-30 in the United States: Changes from 2018 to 2021. Addiction, 118(12), 2449–2454. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.16259
Miech, R., Patrick, M. E., & Keyes, K. (2023). Declines in Adolescent Substance Use After the COVID-19 pandemic onset: The role of initiation in grades 7 and 9. The Journal of Adolescent Health, 73(5), 838–844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2023.05.033
Patrick, M. E., Parks, M. J., & Peterson, S. J. (2023). High-intensity drinking and hours spent drinking. Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental research, 47(11), 2081–2089. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.15189
Patrick, M. E., Sur, A., Arterberry, B., Peterson, S., Morrell, N., & Vock, D. M. (2023). Examining engagement effects in an adaptive preventive intervention for college student drinking. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 91(11), 652–664. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000845
Zhang, Y., Vock, D. M., Patrick, M. E., & Murray, T. A. (2023). Modified interactive Q-learning for attenuating the impact of model misspecification with treatment effect heterogeneity. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 32(11), 2240–2253. https://doi.org/10.1177/09622802231206471
