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

Pennington, CR ORCID: 0000-0002-5259-642X, Shaw, DJ, Skubera, M, Rose, AK ORCID: 0000-0003-3267-7318 and Jones, A ORCID: 0000-0001-5951-889X (2026) Declining trends in adolescent alcohol consumption and related harms: No room for complacency (an empirical reply to Vieira et al. 2025). Addiction. ISSN 0965-2140

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	11 Medical and Health Sciences; 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences; Substance Abuse; 4206 Public health; 5203 Clinical and health psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisions:	Psychology (from Sep 2019)
Publisher:	Wiley
Date of acceptance:	27 February 2026
Date of first compliant Open Access:	31 March 2026
Date Deposited:	31 Mar 2026 10:41
Last Modified:	31 Mar 2026 10:41
DOI or ID number:	10.1111/add.70413
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/28319

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