While it is common for people to try alcohol in adolescence, alcohol use in teens can be detrimental to health and may affect brain development and mental health. While teens usually drink less often ...

More than half of high school seniors used alcohol this year. Researchers who study substance use among young people had wondered whether drops in use of alcohol and other drugs during the COVID-19 ...

A representative analysis showed that problematic alcohol consumption patterns (binge drinking, regular weekly or daily consumption) are more common in adolescents living in rural than in urban ...

Recent studies show Illinois teens are drinking nearly twice the national average, increasing their risk for health problems.

Ronan Fleury and Mary Cannon discuss the trend of polysubstance use among adolescents and highlight the need for a new public ...

A recent survey that studied risk behaviors among Hawaii youth highlighted several areas of improvement during the COVID-19 pandemic, including declining reports of bullying in Maui County as well as ...

For alcohol consumption, stronger associations were found for adolescents aged 16 years and older and for exposure to user generated content compared with marketer generated content. And spending at ...

A good night's sleep is essential for children's health and development, but childhood sleep patterns may also be linked to future substance use. A new study, led by a team of Penn State researchers, ...