“I do feel out of place”: why young people are risking their social lives to go teetotal

“There’s less acceptance of drunkenness, behaviour that people used to see as culturally normal in the boomer generation,” says Dr Tony Rao of the Royal College of Psychiatrists  in New Scientist. “Young people [also] have a different way of social cohesion through social media, and they’ve also got better information about the harms from alcohol.”