Monitoring the Future

March 30, 2022
Alcohol users drank more often early in pandemic

A new U-M study shows that the frequency of drinking went up among those who used alcohol, even though the overall prevalence of drinking went down during the early months of the pandemic.
March 28, 2022
E-cigarettes linked to more failed attempts to quit nicotine

The number of adolescents who have attempted to quit e-cigarettes and failed has grown with the rapid increase of teen e-cigarette use in the past five years, according to a study by U-M researchers.
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.
November 11, 2021
Young adults report fewer sexual partners, higher abstention rate

A number of behaviors in younger adults that increase risk for the transmission of HIV/AIDS have declined or changed between 2010 and 2020, according to the national Monitoring the Future study.
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.
December 3, 2020
Teen smoking, tobacco use drops as e-cig use grows

Despite the increase in use of e-cigarettes among adolescents, cigarette and smokeless tobacco prevalence declined more rapidly between 2012 and 2019 than in previous periods, according to a new U-M study.
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.
September 27, 2019
U-M teams receive $25.5M for opioid-related prevention, treatment research

As the nation continues to battle addiction and overdose related to opioids and other drugs, several teams of U-M researchers have received millions of dollars in new federal funding to address the issue head-on.
September 5, 2019
Marijuana use among U.S. college students hits 35-year high

College students’ use of marijuana in 2018 was at the highest level seen in the past three-and-a-half decades, according to findings in U-M’s annual national Monitoring the Future study.
September 5, 2018
Marijuana use among U.S. college students remains at three-decade high

College students’ use of marijuana was at the highest levels seen in the past three decades in 2016, and that trend remained true in 2017, the annual national Monitoring the Future Panel Study shows.