Underage Drinking | Drug Use Prevention
Knowing What’s Really Important to Prevent Addiction
Parents often ask what they can do to prevent addiction or drug | alcohol abuse in their children. To share his advice, please find the following guest post by Adi Jaffe, Director of allaboutaddiction.com and a UCLA trained addiction expert. Before Dr. Jaffe got involved in addiction research in UCLA classrooms and labs, he was a drug dealer and meth…
Read MoreEverybody Drinks
Everybody drinks – time and again, you hear students and adults say something like, “It’s normal. All kids drink.” And, often, researchers (myself included) focus on how many young people are drinking. The 2002 to 2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health, for example, found that in 2006 almost one in five people aged…
Read MoreUnderstanding the Disease of Addiction Before “That” Drink
Understanding the disease of addiction before “that” drink. Where am I coming from? I was reading a recent post, “Repeat Drunk Driver Accused in MLB Player’s Death,” reporting on the tragic death of a young, promising baseball player and two others at the hands of a repeat DUI offender, and was taken by Lou C’s…
Read MoreTeen Brain Development and Alcohol
Teen brain development and alcohol – believe it or not – alcohol does not work the same way in the teen brain as it does in the brain of an adult. Why? A picture is worth a thousand words, and I thought the following images may help readers better understand the impact of alcohol (or…
Read MoreWhat To Do When You’re Concerned About a Loved One’s Drinking
What can you do when you’re concerned about a loved one’s drinking ? are there signs you should look for? is there really anything you can do? It generally starts out as a feeling — a nagging feeling — a sense that a loved one’s drinking (whether it’s a spouse, parent, child, friend or sibling)…
Read More10 Tips To Help Parents Help Their Children Avoid Underage Drinking
My daughter had her first alcoholic drink at 14. She and her girlfriends passed around water bottles of vodka at a sleepover — after the host parents had gone to bed. As someone who has personally survived the ravages of various loved ones’ drinking, I desperately wanted to help my daughter avoid the perilous path…
Read MoreWhat Were You Thinking?
What were you thinking? How many of us have asked (okay, sometimes yelled) at our teen, “What were you thinking?” after another of their “stupid stunts?” That’s just the problem, they’re not thinking! Not only that – they can’t – or at least not the way an adult might. Thanks to new brain imaging technologies,…
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