To answer us, Anna Toumazoff left the bar where she was sitting for a moment. That evening she hadn’t ordered a pint of beer automatically, as she often did in the past. But a double espresso latte. Her new habit, alternating Club-Mate (a sparkling and energizing tea drink), since the 27-year-old stopped drinking alcohol. In September, the feminist influencer and presenter at Mouv’de Radio France made this decision public on his Instagram account : “I’m giving up alcohol completely for the next six months”, she wrote in the teaser. As if she wanted to set a goal from which she could no longer deviate. And then, e.g “Give strength to those who question their consumption without taking the plunge”she explains to us.

It had been several months since she began to question the impact her drinking and drunken after-work parties were having on her ” Whole life “ : Actions that became drunk and regretted early in the morning, the inclination ” sad “ See you“intoxicate” hoping to benefit from each other, the frequent hangovers, like the acute fear of the consequences of alcohol consumption, which she tells unfiltered on the social network. His intervention sparked many comments of its subscribers under 30 years of age, also expressing their awareness of the invasive aspect that alcohol has taken on in their daily lives.

At this age, the first months of starting school usually rhyme with the return of final drinks, dinners with friends, student parties and other integration weekends where alcohol is omnipresent and trivialized. And it was at this very moment that several twenty-somethings like Anna Toumazoff decided to publicly express their desire to stop drinking. Salomé Lahoche, a 25-year-old illustrator, has made a few a little weird online where she explains her journey into sobriety after experiencing so much during her studies “romanticized the high and the rock image it conveys”.

A fundamental trend

These recent speeches are part of an underlying trend. Studies on this topic show that young people are drinking less and less. The proportion of 17-year-olds who have never drunk alcohol in their lives has increased significantly in twenty years (19.4% in 2022, compared to 4.4% in 2002). the latest report from the French Observatory of Drugs and Addictive Trends (OFDT), published in 2023. When they do drink, young people always tend to drink in large quantities, the survey says, and do so with persistence phenomena of Binge drinking, this massive consumption of alcohol during the first festive experiences. But even these practices are declining among young adults and adolescents (only 36.6% of 17-year-olds surveyed had a heavy drinking episode of more than six drinks in a month, compared to 44% in 2017).

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