Overview
- Annual monitoring by the Institute for Addiction Research surveyed 1,054 students from 82 classes between October 2024 and March 2025.
- More than a quarter of 15- to 18-year-olds report never using alcohol, nicotine or other drugs, and 78% have never used cannabis with only 1% reporting regular use.
- Alcohol use continues to decline, with 88% drinking none or only moderately, and daily smoking has dropped to 10% from about 40% in the early 2000s.
- About one fifth have tried snus despite sales being illegal in Germany, and nitrous oxide experimentation fell to 13% from 17% in 2022.
- E‑cigarette experimentation has decreased for a third straight year even as daily use increased, and researchers say partial cannabis legalization did not raise youth usage in this sample.