What are parents whose kids drink in high school doing or thinking?

sjmom2329
Tue, 30 May 2006 17:56:10 +0000

Katiebee, do your parents know how much you drink? If you are getting drunk most weekends, you are putting your brain at risk. I wish you would check out this website –
http://www.duke.edu/~amwhite/Adolescence/adolescent6.html

There is mounting evidence that repeated exposure to alcohol during adolescence leads to long-lasting deficits in cognitive abilities, including learning and memory, in humans. Much of this work has been pioneered by Drs. Susan Tapert and Sandra Brown, alcohol researchers at the University of California , San Diego (UCSD). Drs. Tapert and Brown have conducted a series of studies examining the impact of alcohol abuse on neuropsychological functioning in adolescents and young adults. In one such study (Brown et al., 2000), adolescents in an in-patient substance abuse treatment program, at least three weeks sober, were compared to controls from the community on a battery of neuropsychological tests. Ages ranged from 15-16. Frequent drinkers (100 or more total drinking sessions), particularly those that had experienced alcohol withdrawal, performed more poorly than controls on several tests, including tests of learning, memory, and visuospatial functioning.

I assume you read CC because you are interested in college – your behavior is putting your future at risk. For more information, you may want to read posts about Lucifer11287 here: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=159778&highlight=lucifer