‘Why millennials like me are choosing to stay sober in lockdown’ A fifth of adults are drinking more as the pandemic restrictions continue, but young people are bucking the trend 10 February 2021 • 10:00am Millie Gooch: ‘Social media plays a part in the uptick of non-drinkers’ Credit: Emily Metcalfe for The Telegraph According to recent research into pandemic drinking habits by Alcohol Change UK, one in five people are drinking more during lockdown. Happily, I am not one of them. In fact, I don’t drink alcohol at all because three years ago, after noticing the negative toll that drinking and subsequent hangovers was having on my mental health, I made the decision to go teetotal, at the age of 26.