drug use

  1. January 9, 2025

    Youth drug use defies expectations, continues to decline

    Adolescent drug use continued to drop in 2024, building on and extending the historically large decreases that occurred during the pandemic onset in 2020.

  2. September 23, 2024

    Campus brief

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  3. August 15, 2024

    Vaping linked to smoking cigarettes, marijuana, other drug use

    U.S. teens and young adults who vape are much more likely to start smoking cigarettes or to begin using cannabis or other drugs, according to a new U-M study that examined data from 12- to 25-year-olds over an eight-year period.

  4. December 14, 2023

    Teen drug use remains below pre-pandemic levels

    The percentage of teenagers reporting they used any illicit substances in 2023 held steady below the pre-pandemic levels reported in 2020, according to the Monitoring the Future survey.

  5. April 14, 2023

    U-M, MSU, WSU partner with state to aid opioid abatement

    Michigan’s three largest public research universities, including U-M, will work together to offer local governments help in developing abatement strategies to address the ongoing opioid epidemic.

  6. December 15, 2021

    Teen use of illicit drugs decreased in ’21 amid pandemic

    Declines in adolescent use of illicit drugs reported in 2021 were the largest and most sweeping recorded in the past 46 years, according to the Monitoring the Future study.

  7. September 9, 2021

    U.S. college students hit 40-year high for marijuana use

    Daily marijuana use among U.S. college students increased in 2020 to an all-time high over the past four decades, according to U-M’s annual national Monitoring the Future panel study.

  8. September 15, 2020

    Dramatic increases in vaping marijuana, nicotine among young adults

    Vaping marijuana and vaping nicotine have increased dramatically among 19- to 22-year-olds, both more than doubling between 2017 and 2019, according to U-M’s annual national Monitoring the Future Panel Study.

  9. April 25, 2020

    Study explores COVID-19 anxiety, depression, substance use

    Orders to stay home during the coronavirus pandemic have led to more adults consuming alcohol and drugs to cope with stress, says a new U-M study that tracked behaviors after the pandemic started.

  10. September 16, 2019

    Prescription drug misuse related to later substance use disorders

    A new University of Michigan study shows the frequency and age at which older teens and young adults misuse prescription drugs are two predictors of substance use disorders later in life, especially alcohol misuse.