youth drinking

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. 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.

3. May 24, 2017

   Black youth, teen girls, see slower decline in frequent binge drinking

   U-M researchers have found the proportion of teens who frequently binge drink has declined, but that decline is slower among black youth, adolescent girls and adolescents of a low socioeconomic status.