Quiz: Prevent Alcohol and Tobacco Use
Prevent Alcohol and Tobacco Use | Parent Further Take this 15-question quiz to examine the ways you address alcohol and tobacco use in your family, including how you talk about it and whether others...
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ALCOHOL AWARENESS MONTH
Founded and sponsored by NCADD, Alcohol Awareness Month was established in 1987 to help reduce the stigma so often associated with alcoholism by encouraging communities to reach out to the American public each April...
Preventing Underage Drinking is Possible
The 2016 Communities Talk: Town Hall Meetings to Prevent Underage Drinking promotional presentation first aired at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) 12th Annual Prevention Day on February 1, 2016. This...
Alcohol Marketing to Teens
April is Alcohol Awareness Month, which provides the perfect opportunity to talk to your child about the dangers of underage drinking. Teens are constantly being exposed to images that promote drinking. Alcohol manufacturers spend...
INSTAGRAM HELPS RESEARCHERS MONITOR UNDERAGE DRINKING
Although one of the most popular platforms for sharing filterized selfies, or images of the sky, or of whatever we had for lunch, it seems that Instagram has followed the path laid down by...
Risky Business: Fake ID’s, Underage Drinking, And A Community’s Response
There’s always a bit of paranoia for Alex while he waits to get into the bar. As his friends file in, his hands sweat and his heart pounds just a little bit faster as...
Think underage drinking doesn’t affect a teen’s brain? Think again.
T’S A FACT. New research shows alcohol affects a teenager’s developing brain differently than an adult’s. Memory, learning and impulse control can be impaired seriously. The risk of addiction goes up dramatically. So talk...
Underage youth widely exposed to online alcohol marketing
The study team led by Dr. Auden McClure of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, used data from a 2011 survey of about 2,000 youth, ages 15 to 20 years. The participants...
Underage kids get alcohol ads directly to smartphones
By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – Kids as young as 13 may be inundated with daily ads from the alcohol industry on social media, and while Twitter has an age-gate which blocks direct-to-phone updates...
Parents who host teen drinking parties: Not cool, not smart, but they do it anyway
“Dude. Your dad is so cool,” one teen might say to the other, sloshing beer out of his red Solo cup as a serious game of pong soaks the cherrywood table and Dad taps...
