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

Addiction · 2026 · PMC13357884 · PMID 41912266

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

[ 1 ] state a ‘Decrease’ for females 15 to 19 years old, but the Lexi plots from this report suggest an increasing trend, meaning that this should have been categorised as ‘Mixed’ because of sex differences.

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