[HTML][HTML] The great decline in adolescent risk behaviours: Unitary trend, separate trends, or cascade?

J Ball, R Grucza, M Livingston, T Ter Bogt… - Social science & …, 2023 - Elsevier
In many high-income countries, the proportion of adolescents who smoke, drink, or engage
in other risk behaviours has declined markedly over the past 25 years. We illustrate this …

Adolescents drink less: How, who and why? A review of the recent research literature

H Pape, I Rossow, GS Brunborg - Drug and alcohol review, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Issues Today's teenagers have been described as a sober generation and we asked:'What
is known about the recent decline in youth drinking?'Approach A literature review (2005 …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in substance use and related disorders: Analysis of the epidemiological survey of substance abuse 1995 to 2018

NN Seitz, K Lochbühler, J Atzendorf… - Deutsches Ärzteblatt …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Changes in the use of psychoactive substances and medications and in the
occurrence of substance-related disorders enable assessment of the magnitude of the …

[HTML][HTML] Why are young people drinking less than earlier? Identifying and specifying social mechanisms with a pragmatist approach

J Törrönen, F Roumeliotis, E Samuelsson… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent surveys have found a strong decrease in alcohol consumption among young people
and this trend has been identified in European countries, Australia and North America …

Long waves of consumption or a unique social generation? Exploring recent declines in youth drinking

L Kraus, R Room, M Livingston, A Pennay… - Addiction Research & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Background: There is growing evidence for recent declines in adolescent alcohol use in the
Western world. While these changes have been subject to scientific debate, the reasons for …

Cultural evolution of genetic heritability

R Uchiyama, R Spicer… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Behavioral genetics and cultural evolution have both revolutionized our understanding of
human behavior–largely independent of each other. Here, we reconcile these two fields …

Declining drinking among adolescents: are we seeing a denormalisation of drinking and a normalisation of non‐drinking?

G Caluzzi, M Livingston, J Holmes, S MacLean… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background In the early 2000s, alcohol use among young people began to decline in many
western countries, especially among adolescents (ages between 12–17 years old). These …

Tracking the decline in Australian adolescent drinking into adulthood

M Livingston, S Callinan, R Vashishtha, WS Yuen… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background and aims Adolescent drinking in Australia (and many other countries) has
declined substantially since the early 2000s. This study aimed to test whether these declines …

Cultural evolutionary theory is not enough: Ambiguous culture, neglect of structure, and the absence of theory in behavior genetics.

CH Burt - Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2022 - search.ebscohost.com
Uchiyama et al. propose a unified model linking cultural evolutionary theory to behavior
genetics (BG) to enhance generalizability, enrich explanation, and predict how social factors …

Researching the decline in adolescent drinking: The need for a global and generational approach

A Pennay, J Holmes, J Törrönen… - Drug and alcohol …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Adolescent alcohol consumption has been in decline across many high‐income countries
since the early to mid‐2000s. This is a significant public health trend, with few documented …