Monitoring the Future (MTF) is an annual drug use survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th graders, which follows randomly selected participants into adulthood, surveying these adults on their behavior

Monitoring the Future (MTF) is an annual drug use survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th graders, which follows randomly selected participants into adulthood, surveying these adults on their behaviors annually.
The Monitoring the Future research team recently released the following findings:
Among college students, 30-day alcohol use decreased significantly between 2019 and 2020 to 56%. The trend in 30-day alcohol use between 2015 and 2019 was fairly level, suggesting that the significant drop between 2019 and 2020 reflects possible pandemic effects due to reduced social time with college friends.
Among non-college youth, 30-day alcohol use showed a fairly level trend between 2015 and 2020, with no drop in 2020. The 2020 prevalence was 49%.
In addition, college student binge drinking (defined as five or more drinks in a row at least once in the past two weeks) declined a significant 7.8 percentage points between 2019 and 2020 to 24%, an all-time low in the past four decades; it was also 24% among same-aged youth not in college in 2020.