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With Drinking, Parent Rules Do Affect Teens' Choices

6/1/2010

 
by MICHELLE TRUDEAU

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As teenagers mature into their senior year of high school, many parents begin to feel more comfortable about letting them drink alcohol. But new research from brain scientists and parenting experts suggests loosening the reins on drinking may not be a good idea in the long run. And, researchers say, parents' approach to addressing teen drinking does influence a teen's behavior.

Brain researchers are finding that alcohol has a particularly toxic effect on the brain cells of adolescents. That's because their brain cells are still growing, says Susan Tapert, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego.

The regions of the brain important for judgment, critical thinking and memory do not fully mature until a person is in his or her mid-20s. Tapert found that alcohol can damage the normal growth and development of a teenager's brain cells in these regions.

"Adolescents who engage in binge drinking (that is, having five or more drinks on occasion for boys, or four or more drinks on occasion for females) tend to show some brain abnormalities in their brain's white matter. That's the fibers that connect different parts of our brains," she wrote in a recent study.

And if binge drinking continues, within two to three years, Tapert says, it can result in subtle declines in a teen's thinking and memory. She reports declines in attention and memory among the teens who had engaged in binge drinking.

"Teenagers who initiate heavy drinking actually go downhill relative to kids who ....



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drinking and academic performance

4/22/2009

 

Drinking alcohol negatively affects students’ academic performance.

➾ Students with high truancy rates were far more likely than students with low truancy rates to be drinkers or to get drunk. 3


➾ Heavy drinkers and binge drinkers ages 12 to 17 were twice as likely to say their school work is poor than those who did not drink alcohol in the past month. 4


➾ High school students who use alcohol or other drugs frequently are up to five times
more likely than other students to drop out of school. 5


➾ Among eighth graders, students with higher grade point averages reported less
alcohol use in the past month. 6


➾ Students drinking alcohol during adolescence have a reduced ability to learn,
compared with those youth who do not drink until adulthood. 7


➾ In a national survey of over 55,000 undergraduate students from 132 two and
four-year colleges in the United States, 23.5 percent of students reported performing
poorly on a test or assignment, and 33.1 percent said they had missed a class
due to alcohol use in the previous 12 months.  8


➾ College students who were frequent binge drinkers were eight times more likely than non-binge drinkers to miss a class, fall behind in schoolwork, get hurt or injured, and damage property. 12


1 Brown SA, Tapert SF, Granholm E, et al. Neurocognitive functioning of adolescents: effects of protracted alcohol use. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 24(2):164-171, 2000.
2 Swartzwelder HS, Wilson WA, Tayyeb MI. Age-dependent inhibition of long-term potentiation by ethanol in immature versus mature hippocampus. Alcohol Clin
Exp Res 19(6):1480-1485, 1995.
3 O’Malley PM, Johnston LD, Bachman JG. Alcohol use among adolescents. Alcohol Res Health 22(2):85-93, 1998.
4 Greenblatt JC. Patterns of alcohol use among adolescents and associations with emotional and behavioral problems. Office of Applied Studies Working Paper.
Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2000.
5 The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. Malignant Neglect: Substance Abuse and America’s Schools. New York: Columbia
University, 2001.
6 O’Malley, et al. Alcohol use among adolescents.
7 Swartzwelder, et al. Age-dependent inhibition.
8 Core Institute. 2000 Statistics on Alcohol and Other Drug Use on American Campuses. Carbondale Il: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2000.
9 Wechsler H, Dowdall G, Maenner G, et al. Changes in binge drinking and related problems among American college students between 1993 and 1997: Results of
the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study. J Am Coll Health, 47(9):57-68, 1998.

teens drink less frequently BUT

4/13/2009

 

Adolescents Drink Less Frequently Than Adults, But When They Do Drink, They Drink More Heavily Than Adults. When youth between the ages of 12 and 20 consume alcohol, they drink on average about five drinks per occasion about six times a month. This amount of alcohol puts an adolescent drinker in the binge range, which, depending on the study, is defined as "five or more drinks on one occasion" or "five or more drinks in a row for men and four or more drinks in a row for women." By comparison, adult drinkers age 26 and older consume on average two to three drinks per occasion about nine times a month.

                                   

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