Excessive intake of wine, beer and champagne may define Christmas and New Year celebrations across France, but a report by the country's leading addiction monitoring agency shows that alcohol consumption is declining for the rest of the year.
The French Observatory for Drugs and Addictive Tendencies (OFDT), which tracks substance use and addiction trends nationwide, revealed that 600 million litres of pure alcohol were sold in 2023 – a 3.8 percent drop compared with the previous year.
