Posts Tagged ‘alcohol’
Perks of being sober
Staying sober might be the best part of a drunken Saturday night The music is too loud. The room is too crowded. The people are drunk. Believe it or not, bars are not all they’re cracked up to be — at least if you’re sober. I came to college knowing I wouldn’t drink. When family…
Read MoreThe Teenage Brain: ADOLESCENTS AND ALCOHOL
The high levels of alcohol consumption characteristic of adolescence may be in part biologically based, given that elevated consumption levels are also evident during this developmental transition in other mammalian species as well. Studies conducted using a simple animal model of adolescence in the rat has shown adolescents to be more sensitive than adults to…
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