Youth drinking is an important public health issue.
The Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey, a national
study that includes approximately 50,000 8th, 10th
and 12th graders each year, indicates that 62 % of all
high school seniors report drinking in the past year and
39 % report doing so in the past 30 days (Johnston,
O’Malley, Bachman, & Schulenberg, 2013).