New research indicates that teenagers who drink too much may lose as much as 10 percent of their brainpower the difference between passing and failing in school... and in life
Educating your child about the dangers and consequences of underage drinking is important. Kids don't need to experience alcohol to know that it is bad for them - they just need you tell them in a way that makes sense to them. Sometimes parents have good intentions in hoping to show their kids how to drink responsibly so that when they are on their own they will make better choices.
Alcohol can produce a wide range of effects, from a mild 'buzz' to death. This happens because of what is occurring in the brain when alcohol is consumed. Most drugs have very specific effects. They normally target one or two different systems in the brain. However, alcohol is different than these drugs - it affects almost everything in the brain in one way or
another.
Alcohol can...
- Impair motor coordination (the ability to walk or drive)
- Impair memory (produces blackouts)
- Impair judgment and decision making (people often think they are OK to drive when they are not)
- Impair impulse control (increase the odds that youll do things you might regret later)
- Cause death (by directly affecting the pons and medulla part of the brain which controls vital reflexes like breathing, heart rate, gagging, etc. - alcohol can shut down these reflexes, directly causing death)
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