Category: Talking to Kids About…
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Alcohol and the Teen Brain: A Match Made in a Neuroscience Nightmare
Your teenager’s brain is still under construction. So naturally, alcohol is eager to show up uninvited, knock over the scaffolding, and announce that it knows a guy who can finish the wiring faster. Teen drinking is not a harmless little rite of passage, a personality trait, or “just what kids do.” It is a drug…