Less Binge Drinking Among Teens, Yet More Depression

Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health said for the first time in the past 40 years, binge drinking and depressive symptoms among adolescents are no longer linked.
Investigators discovered binge drinking among U.S. adolescents declined significantly from 1991 to 2018. However, depressive symptoms among U.S. adolescents have sharply increased since 2012.
Their findings appear online in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
“Comorbidity of depression and drinking is a