Aug. 30 (UPI) — The number of U.S. adults using cannabis and hallucinogens remained at historically high levels in 2023 while alcohol use and binge drinking among younger adults continued to drop, researchers said this week.
The latest figures released Thursday from the Monitoring the Future survey by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research and the U.S. National Institutes of Health showed that adults in two age cohorts — 19-to-30 and 35-to-50 — are continuing their trend of consuming more and more cannabis and hallucinogens, such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms.
Both groups also reported historically low levels of past-year use of tobacco cigarettes.
But the two cohorts diverge on alcohol, the study found. Among the 19 to 30 age group, binge drinking continued a long-term reduction trend, dropping to all-time lows, while among 35- to 50-year-olds, the prevalence of binge drinking in 2023 increased from five and 10 years ago.
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