4 Topic Commentaries

Alcohol use may have declined since 2022

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  Richard A. Miech, PhD

  Substance use epidemiology

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  University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research

  As it turns out, the declines have not only lasted but have dropped further.

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  Nora D. Volkow, MD

  Addiction psychiatry and neuroscience

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  National Institutes of Health

  We may be seeing this play out in real time,

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  Johannes Thrul, PhD

  Substance use epidemiology and public mental health

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  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  young people today are drinking way less and less frequent than previous generations.

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  George F. Koob, PhD

  Behavioral neuroscience and addiction research

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  National Institutes of Health

  The sober curious phenomenon, as well as TAACs, provide opportunities for individuals to evaluate their relationship with alcohol,

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