Overall alcohol use has significantly declined among teens regardless of their age/grade. It has dropped overall from 54% in 1999 saying that they have ever tried alcohol, to only 36% in 2015.
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Each of the grade levels have also seen fewer teens ever drinking. The chart below shows the breakdown by grade level over the past 16 years of the survey.
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Among those that use alcohol, fewer are using it "regularly" - a few times a month or more - than at any time in the past. Only one in three teens (33%) that do use alcohol say that they use it at least a few times a month or more.
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Among all teens, fewer are also going binge drinking - where they drink five or more drinks within a couple hours. So not only are fewer teens drinking, those that are drinking are drinking less often and not as much as teens have in the past.
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To see more about teen drinking trends, you can see the entire report here.
