In my area of specialism – drug and alcohol prevention – there’s been a decade or more of sustained good news, with the proportions of young people and young adults who say they smoke, drink or take other drugs falling quite substantially. Here’s a briefing I put together on this a couple of years ago https://bit.ly/18PQ6W0.

That story is starting to be reflected in the way that the media report the annual surveys, but there’s a real lag in that message being believed by adults and young people themselves.