Even long-held beliefs, such as the Titanic’s sinking because of an iceberg, have been questioned, so why not youth alcohol use? In fact, good news can be found in the 2016 Monitoring the Future Survey: High School and Youth Trends. The percentage of high school students who reported ever using alcohol dropped by as much as 60 percent compared to peak years. After all, if 61.2 percent of high school seniors are drinking, that means 38.8 are not! Of his research, Prinstein offers, “We started by asking adolescents in a typical public high school to tell us all about the different groups in their school.

Source: Huffington Post April 16, 2017 06:00 UTC