date:Oct 12, 2018
nking -- defined as drinking twice the recommended daily limits -- fell from 27% to 18%.
The team at University College London analyzed data on almost 10,000 young people who had been interviewed about their drinking habits in the annual Health Survey for England between 2005 and 2015.
The findings show that non-drinking is becoming more acceptable, while risky behaviors such as binge drinking may be less normalized, the authors wrote.
Both trends are to be welcomed from a public-health stand