Declining trends in adolescent alcohol consumption and related harms: No room for complacency (an empirical reply to Vieira et al. 2025).
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 41912266.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1111/add.70413 and PMC identifier 13357884.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
- The licence permits redistribution, so the abstract is shown in full and the full text is available from the publisher.
Abstract
Vieira et al. report that alcohol-related harms among adolescents have generally declined in high-income countries where youth drinking has decreased, but several methodological choices complicate this conclusion. By performing reproducibility analyses on Vieira et al.'s raw data, we show that their findings are more nuanced and complex. Secondary data analyses reveal that 19-24-year-olds have elevated vulnerability to alcohol-related harms. Any discussion of declining trends in adolescent alcohol consumption and related harms should acknowledge that current prevalence rates and harms remain unacceptably high and require continued public health attention.
Medical subject headings
- Underage Drinking