While American college life has long been associated with binge drinking and boozy parties, new evidence shows that, for some students at least, sobriety is trending.
In 1981, 82 percent of college students reported drinking alcohol during the previous 30 days, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s “Monitoring the Future” survey.
In 2021, less than 60 percent reported the same.
Even more, “there’s a nascent movement of college students turning down the red Solo cup,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on April 11.
