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 ...

Teens and young adults who see alcohol promotions in their social media feeds are more likely to drink and binge drink, according to a Rutgers Health review of 31 studies that tracked links between ...

Examining genetic, family, and personality characteristics may help identify those who are at high risk for drinking and ...

What parents need to know about a new study linking cannabis, nicotine and alcohol use among high schoolers to suicidal thoughts. (iStock/Getty Images Plus) So what can you take away from this? Here’s ...

Alcohol and cannabis use among Europe’s teens continue to fall, yet new digital and behavioral risks are gaining ground, ...

Nearly 49 million people in the US ages 12 and older – more than 1 in 6 – had a substance use disorder in 2022, according to survey data released Monday by the US Department of Health and Human ...

Heavy binge drinking isn't just a college problem, researchers affirmed, finding that most teen alcohol use that escalated to having 10 or more drinks in a row reached that level rapidly during the ...

Peer pressure hasn’t gone away. It’s just gone digital. Through surveys of more than 260 high school freshmen and sophomores, FIU Center for Children and Families researchers found friends still hold ...

For many years, moderate alcohol intake and its effect on health have been subject to much debate, particularly concerning cardiovascular health. Indeed, light-to-moderate use of alcohol has been ...