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Youth drinking declines - what have we learned?

Video and audio recordings

Since the early 2000s, adolescent drinking in Australia and in many high income countries has fallen dramatically. For example, among 14-17 year old Australians, the rate of risky drinking has fallen from 30% in 2001 to 9% in 2019. This...

The Decline of Heavy Episodic Drinking in Adolescents in Finland, Norway and Sweden

Scientific article

Around the world, there has been a decline in heavy drinking among adolescents. In this study, researchers compared these trends in Finland, Norway and Sweden using information from the ESPAD survey- a project that has data on substance use...

The Increased Trend of Non-drinking Alcohol Among Adolescents: What Role Do Internet Activities Have?

Scientific article

1 February 2019

Is the increase in non-drinking amount adolescents linked with spending more time on the internet?

Youth Drinking in Decline

10 April 2019

Krakow

Poland

Youth alcohol consumption is declining across most high-income nations, often alongside concurrent decreases in drug use and smoking. Researchers are increasingly focusing on the nature and underlying reasons for this decline.

The Kettil Bruun Society is holding a thematic meeting to discuss the nature of these trends.

The programme will be organised around the following themes:

Global Smoking Rates on Decline Thanks to Demand-Reduction Measures

Scientific article

25 April 2017

New research published in The Lancet Public Health suggests that global smoking rates have decreased by 2.5% following the introduction of the global tobacco control treaty. The treaty obligates the 180 countries committed to it to...

Are Drinking Cultures in the West Changing?

Scientific article

24 September 2016

Levels of alcohol consumption have generally decreased in the West over the last ten years. A series of papers published in a recent special issue of Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy focuses on this topic of drinking cultures...