While the news on pot and hallucinogens is concerning, alcohol still remains the most popular substance, and binge drinking is on the rise.
The amount of young adults who said in 2021 that they used marijuana in the past year , the past month or daily were at the highest levels ever recorded.The amount of young adults who said they used a marijuana vape in the past month reached pre-pandemic levels, after dropping off in 2020. It doubled from 6% in 2017 to 12% in 2021.
In 2021, 8% of young adults said they have used a hallucinogen in the past year, the highest proportion since the survey began in 1988.Only use of MDMA declined, from 5% in 2020 to 3% in 2021.Alcohol was the most popular substance in the study, though rates of daily drinking have decreased in the past 10 years.
But binge drinking — which the organization defines as having five or more drinks in a row in the past two weeks — is back on the rise after hitting a historic low in 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. High-intensity drinking — having 10 or more drinks in a row in the past two weeks — has been consistently rising in the last decade, and in 2021, was at its highest level since 2005.
Meanwhile, use of nicotine vapes are still on the rise among young people — its prevalence almost tripled from 6% in 2017, when it was first measured, to 16% in 2021.What questions do you have about Southern California?
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