Declining trends in adolescent alcohol consumption and related harms: No room for complacency (an empirical reply to Vieira et al. 2025).

Charlotte R Pennington, Daniel J Shaw, Magda Skubera, Abigail K Rose, Andrew Jones

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Article in Addiction (Abingdon, England), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Declining trends in adolescent alcohol consumption and related harms: No room for complacency (an empirical reply to Vieira et al. 2025).Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026
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5 authors.

Charlotte R PenningtonDepartment of Psychology, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5259-642X

Daniel J ShawDepartment of Psychology, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.

Magda SkuberaDepartment of Psychology, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.

Abigail K RoseSchool of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3267-7318

Andrew JonesSchool of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.

Funding

Academy of Medical Sciences SBF0010\1109Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) ES/Y001877/1

6 · The paper itself

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.

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Underage DrinkingAdolescentHumansPrevalenceadolescencealcohol consumptionalcohol‐related harmdrinking declinesprevalencepublic healthtrends

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PMID41912266

DOI10.1111/add.70413

PMCPMC13357884

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