Read the event report for Dr Inge Kersbergen and Dr Laura Fenton’s webinar on Youth drinking in decline: implications for policy and practice.
The focus of the webinar was to discuss work from a 4-year Wellcome-funded project that aims to understand mechanisms underlying the decline in youth drinking over the past two decades.
Kersbergen and Fenton gave an overview of the background literature and the key proposed mechanisms underlying the decline, before discussing three strands of their research that point to important implications for policy and practice.
Some of the main topics of discussion during the webinar were:
- reasons why young people may be drinking less,
- the influence of the internet on youth drinking,
- shifts in young people’s attitudes towards drinking.
Youth drinking in decline: Implications for policy and practice
April 2022