Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Biography
Dr. Miech is a co-Investigator of the NIDA-funded Monitoring the Future study. He received his Ph.D. degree in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a MPH degree from Johns Hopkins University. His work focuses on trends in substance use, with an emphasis on disentangling how these trends vary by age, historical period, and birth cohort membership. Other research interests include identification of the factors that widen or narrow disparities in substance use over historical time, as well as the causes and consequences of substance use over the life course.
Projects
High-intensity drinking and related consequences: Daily data from a national sample aged 19 to 22
Monitoring the Future: Drug Use and Lifestyles of American Youth (MTF)Funded Research
Publications
- Miech, Richard Allen, Couper, Mick P, Heeringa, Steven G, Patrick, Megan E. 2021. The Impact of Survey Mode on U.S. National Estimates of Adolescent Drug Prevalence: Results from a Randomized-Controlled Study. Addiction 116(5):1144-1151.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Patrick, Megan E, O’Malley, Patrick M, Johnston, Lloyd D, Bachman, Jerald G. 2020. Trends in Reported Marijuana Vaping Among US Adolescents, 2017-2019. JAMA 323(5):475-476.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Barrington-Trimis, Jessica L, Cho, Junhan , Ewusi-Boisvert, Esthelle , Hasin, Deborah , Unger, Jennifer B, Leventhal, Adam M. 2020. Risk of Persistence and Progression of Use of 5 Cannabis Products After Experimentation Among Adolescents. JAMA Network Open 3(1):e1919792.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Johnston, Lloyd D, O’Malley, Patrick M, Patrick, Megan E, Leventhal, Adam M, Barrington-Trimis, Jessica . 2019. Flavors of e-Cigarettes Used by Youths in the United States. JAMA 322(21):2132-2134.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Kelley-Quon, Lorraine I, Cho, Junhan , Strong, David R, Barrington-Trimis, Jessica L, Kechter, Afton , Leventhal, Adam M. 2019. Association of Nonmedical Prescription Opioid Use With Subsequent Heroin Use Initiation in Adolescents. JAMA Pediatrics 173(9):e191750.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Terry-McElrath, Yvonne M, O’Malley, Patrick M, Johnston, Lloyd D. 2019. Increasing marijuana use for black adolescents in the United States: A test of competing explanations. Addictive Behaviors
- Patrick, Megan E, Miech, Richard Allen, Kloska, Deborah Denise, Johnston, Lloyd D, Wagner, Anna C. 2019. Trends in Marijuana Vaping and Edible Consumption From 2015 to 2018 Among Adolescents in the US. JAMA Pediatrics
- Miech, Richard Allen, Keyes, Katherine, O’Malley, Patrick M, Johnston, Lloyd D. 2019. The great decline in adolescent cigarette smoking since 2000: consequences for drug use among US adolescents. Tobacco Control
- Miech, Richard Allen, Johnston, Lloyd D, O’Malley, Patrick M, Bachman, Jerald G, Patrick, Megan E. 2019. Adolescent Vaping and Nicotine Use in 2017-2018 - U.S. National Estimates. New England Journal of Medicine 380(2):192-193.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Johnston, Lloyd D, O’Malley, Patrick M, Terry-McElrath, Yvonne M. 2019. The national prevalence of adolescent nicotine use in 2017: Estimates taking into account student reports of substances vaped. Addictive Behaviors Reports 9:100159.
- Keyes, Katherine, Miech, Richard Allen, Rutherford, Caroline . 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.
- Patrick, Megan E, Schulenberg, John E, O’Malley, Patrick M, Johnston, Lloyd D, Miech, Richard Allen, Laetz, Virginia B. 2018. A Sequential Mixed Mode Experiment in the U.S. National Monitoring the Future Study. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology 6(1):72-97.
- Patrick, Megan E, Miech, Richard Allen, O’Malley, Patrick M, Johnston, Lloyd D, Evans-Polce, Rebecca, Lanza, Stephanie T. 2018. Reasons for Vaping among U.S. 12th Graders. Journal of Adolescent Health 62(4):457-462.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Patrick, Megan E, O’Malley, Patrick M, Johnston, Lloyd D. 2017. The Influence of College Attendance on Risk for Marijuana Initiation in the United States: 1977 to 2015. American Journal of Public Health 107(6):996-1002.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Johnston, Lloyd D. 2017. Prevalence and Attitudes Regarding Marijuana Use Among Adolescents Over the Past Decade. Pediatrics 140(6):e20170982.
- Patrick, Megan E, Terry-McElrath, Yvonne M, Miech, Richard Allen, O’Malley, Patrick M, Schulenberg, John E, Johnston, Lloyd D. 2017. Current High-Intensity Drinking Among Eighth and Tenth Grade Students in the U.S. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 53(6):904-908.
- Terry-McElrath, Yvonne M, O’Malley, Patrick M, Patrick, Megan E, Miech, Richard Allen. 2017. Risk is still relevant: Time-varying associations between perceived risk and marijuana use among US 12th grade students from 1991 to 2016. Addictive Behaviors 74:13-19.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Soneji, S , Barrington-Trimis, J L, Wills, T A, Leventhal, A M, Unger, J B, Gibson, L A, Yang, J , Primack, B A, Andrews, J A, Spindle, T R, Dick, D M, Eissenberg, T , Hornik, R C, Dang, R , Sargent, J D. 2017. Association between initial use of e-cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking among adolescents and young adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Pediatrics 171(8):788-797.
- Patrick, Megan E, Terry-McElrath, Yvonne M, Miech, Richard Allen, Schulenberg, John E, O’Malley, Patrick M, Johnston, Lloyd D. 2017. Age-Specific Prevalence of Binge and High-Intensity Drinking Among U.S. Young Adults: Changes from 2005 to 2015. Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research 41(7):1319-1328.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Patrick, Megan E, Johnston, Lloyd D. 2017. E-cigarette use as a predictor of cigarette smoking: results from a 1-year follow-up of a national sample of 12th grade students. Tobacco Control 26:e106-e111.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Bauldry, Shawn , Shanahan, Michael J, Macmillan, Ross , Boardman, Jason D, O. Dean, Danielle , Cole, Veronica . 2016. Parental and adolescent health behaviors and pathways to adulthood. Social science research 58:227-242.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Patrick, Megan E, Johnston, Lloyd D. 2016. What are kids vaping? Results from a national survey of US adolescents. Tobacco control 25(26):386-391.
- Miech, Richard Allen, London, Andrew S, Herd, Pamela , Wilmoth, Janet M. 2016. The Influence of Men's Military Service on Smoking Across the Life Course. Journal of Drug Issues
- Miech, Richard Allen, O’Malley, Patrick M, Johnston, Lloyd D, Patrick, Megan E. 2016. E-Cigarettes and the Drug Use Patterns of Adolescents. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 18(5):654-659.
- Patrick, Megan E, Miech, Richard Allen, Carlier, Carola, O’Malley, Patrick M, Johnston, Lloyd D, Schulenberg, John E. 2016. Self-reported reasons for vaping among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders in the US: Nationally-representative results. Drug and alcohol dependence 165:275-278.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Johnston, Lloyd D, O’Malley, Patrick M, Bachman, Jerald G, Schulenberg, John E, Patrick, Megan E. 2015. Trends in use of marijuana and attitudes toward marijuana among youth before and after decriminalization: The case of California 2007-2013. International Journal of Drug Policy 26(4):336-344.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Johnston, Lloyd D, O’Malley, Patrick M, Keyes, Katherine, Heard, Kennon . 2015. Prescription Opioids in Adolescence and Future Opioid Misuse. Pediatrics 136(5):e1169-e1177.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Shanahan, M J, Boardman, J , Bauldry, S . 2015. The Sequencing of a College Degree during the Transition to Adulthood: Implications for Obesity. Journal of health and social behavior 56(2):281-295.
- Patrick, Megan E, O’Malley, Patrick M, Kloska, Deborah Denise, Schulenberg, John E, Johnston, Lloyd D, Miech, Richard Allen, Bachman, Jerald G. 2015. Novel psychoactive substance use by US adolescents: Characteristics associated with use of synthetic cannabinoids and synthetic cathinones. Drug and Alcohol Review 35(5):586–590.
- Keyes, Katherine, O’Malley, Patrick M, Miech, Richard Allen, Schulenberg, John E, Jager, Justin , Hamilton, Ava . 2015. National multi-cohort time trends in adolescent risk preference and the relation with substance use and problem behavior from 1976 to 2011. Drug and alcohol dependence 155:267-274.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Koester, Stephen , Holliman, BrookeDorsey . 2013. Towards an Explanation of the Recent Increase in Drug-Related Mortality. Crime, HIV and Health: Intersections of Criminal Justice and Public Health Concerns :129-149.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Rogers, Richard G, Krueger, Patrick M, Lawrence, Elizabeth M, Kemp, Robert . 2013. Nondrinker Mortality Risk in the United States. Population Research and Policy Review 32(3):325-352.
- Miech, Richard Allen, London, Andrew S, Wilmoth, Janet M, Koester, Stephen . 2013. The Effects of the Military's Antidrug Policies over the Life Course: The Case of Past-Year Hallucinogen Use. Subst Use Misuse 48(10):837-853.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Bohnert, Amy , Heard, Kennon , Boardman, Jason . 2013. Increasing use of nonmedical analgesics among younger cohorts in the United States: a birth cohort effect. The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 52(1):35-41.
- Keyes, Katherine, Miech, Richard Allen. 2013. Age, period, and cohort effects in heavy episodic drinking in the US from 1985 to 2009. Drug and alcohol dependence 132(1-2):140-148.
- Keyes, Katherine, Miech, Richard Allen. 2013. Commentary on Dawson et?al. (2013): Drink to your health? Maybe not. Addiction 108(4):723-724.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Koester, Stephen . 2012. Trends in U.S., past-year marijuana use from 1985 to 2009: An age-period-cohort analysis. Drug and alcohol dependence 124(3):259-267.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Boardman, J D, Alexander, K B, Macmillan, R , Shanahan, Michael J. 2012. The association between parent's health and the educational attainment of their children. Social science & medicine 75(5):932-939.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Bauldry, Shawn , Shanahan, Michael J, Boardman, Jason D, Macmillan, Ross . 2012. A life course model of self-rated health through adolescence and young adulthood. Social science & medicine 75(7):1311-1320.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Koester, Steve , Dorsey-Holliman, Brook . 2011. Increasing US mortality due to accidental poisoning: the role of the baby boom cohort. Addiction 106(4):806-815.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Pampel, Fred , Kim, Jinyoung , Rogers, Richard G. 2011. The Enduring Association between Education and Mortality: The Role of Widening and Narrowing Disparities. American Sociological Review 76(56):913-934.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Bohnert, A S. 2010. Changes in the association of drug use with depressive disorders in recent decades: the case of cocaine. Substance use & misuse 45(10):1452-1462.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Walrath, Christine , Garraza, LucasGodoy , Stephens, Robert , Azur, Melissa , Leaf, Philip . 2009. Trends in Characteristics of Children Served by the Children's Mental Health Initiative: 1994-2007. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research 36(6):361-373.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Kim, J , McConnell, C . 2009. A growing disparity in diabetes-related mortality U.S. trends, 1989-2005. American journal of preventive medicine 36(2):126-132.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Kim, J . 2009. The Black-White difference in age trajectories of functional health over the life course. Social science & medicine 36(2):126-132.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Sutin, Angelina R, Costa, Paul T, Eaton, William W. 2009. Personality and career success: Concurrent and longitudinal relations. European Journal of Personality 23(2):71-84.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Azur, Melissa , Dusablon, Tracy , Jowers, Keri , Goldstein, Amy , Stuart, Elizabeth , Walrath, Christine , Leaf, Philip . 2008. The Potential to Reduce Mental Health Disparities Through the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 35(3):253-264.
- Miech, Richard Allen. 2008. The formation of a socioeconomic health disparity: the case of cocaine use during the 1980s and 1990s. Journal of health & social behavior 49(3):352-366.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Link, B G, Phelan, J C, Westin, E L. 2008. The resources that matter: fundamental social causes of health disparities and the challenge of intelligence. Journal of health & social behavior 49(1):72-91.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Lin, F R, Ceh, K , Bervinchak, D , Riley, A , Niparko, J K. 2007. Development of a communicative performance scale for pediatric cochlear implantation. Ear and hearing 28(5):703-712.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Bevans, K , Bradshaw, C , Leaf, P . 2007. Staff- and school-level predictors of school organizational health: a multilevel analysis. The Journal of school health 77(6):294-302.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Power, Chris , Eaton, William W. 2007. Disparities in Psychological Distress Across Education and Sex: A Longitudinal Analysis of Their Persistence Within A Cohort Over 19 Years. Annals of Epidemiology 17(4):289-295.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Kumanyika, S K, Stettler, N , Link, B G, Phelan, J C, Chang, V W. 2006. Trends in the association of poverty with overweight among us adolescents, 1971-2004. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 295(20):2385-2393.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Eaton, W W, Brennan, K . 2005. Mental health disparities across education and sex: a prospective analysis examining how they persist over the life course. The journals of gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences 60(2):93-98.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Chilcoat, Howard , Harder, Valerie S. 2005. The increase in the association of education and cocaine use over the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence for a 'historical period' effect. Drug and alcohol dependence 79(3):311-320.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Chilcoat, Howard . 2005. Maternal education and adolescent drug use: a longitudinal analysis of causation and selection over a generation. Social Science & Medicine 60(4):725-735.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Muntaner, Carles , Eaton, William W, O’Campo, Patricia . 2004. Socioeconomic Position and Major Mental Disorders. Epidemiologic reviews 26(1):53-62.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Walrath, Christine , Holden, E W, Manteuffel, Brigitte , Santiago, Rolando , Leaf, Philip . 2003. Child functioning in rural and nonrural areas: How does it compare when using the service program site as the level of analysis?. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 30(4):452-461.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Eaton, William , Liang, Kung-Yee . 2003. Occupational Stratification Over the Life Course: A Comparison of Occupational Trajectories Across Race and Gender During the 1980s and 1990s. Work and Occupations 30(4):440-473.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Breitner, J C. S., Zandi, P P, Khachaturian, A S, Anthony, J C, Mayer, L . 2002. Incidence of AD may decline in the early 90s for men, later for women: The Cache County study. Neurology 58(2):209-218.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Walrath, Christine , dosReis, Susan , Liao, Qinghong , Holden, E W, De Carolis, Gary , Santiago, Rolando , Leaf, Philip . 2001. Referral Source Differences in Functional Impairment Levels for Children Served in the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program. Journal of Child and Family Studies 10(3):385-397.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Hauser, Robert M. 2001. Socioeconomic Status and Health at Midlife: A Comparison of Educational Attainment with Occupation-Based Indicators. Annals of Epidemiology 11(2):75-84.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Essex, Marilyn , Klein, Marjorie , Smider, Nancy . 2001. Timing of initial exposure to maternal major depression and children's mental health symptoms in kindergarten. British Journal of Psychiatry 179:151-156.
- Miech, Richard Allen, Shanahan, Michael J. 2000. Socioeconomic Status and Depression over the Life Course. Journal of health & social behavior 41(2):162-176.