Declining drinking among adolescents: Are we seeing a denormalisation of drinking and a normalisation of non-drinking?
Gabriel CaluzziMichael LivingstonJohn HolmesSarah J MacLeanDaniel I LubmanPaul M DietzeRakhi VashishthaRachel HerringAmy PennayPublished in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) (2021)
Research on declining adolescent drinking provides evidence of both denormalisation of alcohol consumption and normalisation of non-drinking. This has implications for enabling policy environments more amenable to regulation and increasing the acceptability of non-drinking in social contexts. Normalisation theory (and its various interpretations) provides a useful multi-dimensional tool for understanding declines in adolescent drinking.