Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts

(arstechnica.com)

372 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 17 Dec 24 23:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source

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nozzlegear ◴[20 Dec 24 22:07 UTC] No.42475546[source]▶

It's remarkable to me that many of the top-level comments on this story are all positing that something (i.e. the damn phones) must have replaced drug use and we're just not accounting for it. And if it isn't the damn phones, then it must be that the kids are just too scared of modern-day drugs and the dangers lurking within.

I'm not saying it's not phone addiction, or fentanyl in the weed, but is it really that hard to believe that the youths just don't want to do drugs as much as your generation did?

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throwaway_ahfmn ◴[22 Dec 24 20:09 UTC] No.42488713[source]▶

>>42475546 #

Drugs of one kind or another have never been unpopular. So yes, it is hard to believe.

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1. nozzlegear ◴[23 Dec 24 19:22 UTC] No.42496916[source]▶

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I guess I'm primed to believe it, because I'm a teetotaler who's never done drugs and never drank a bit of alcohol in my entire life. I'd like to believe that the younger generations are more like me. Of course, I'm just one data point, and a millennial so not even the article's subject demographic.

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