Heavy Drinking Damages Teenage Brains - Teen Health
April 7, 2008
Teenagers having binge drinking suffer from brain damage and absent-mindedness.
A team of researchers from Universities of Northumbria and Keele examined students from different universities to find out how drinking affects teenage brains.
Researchers examined 26 binge drinkers and 34 non-binge drinkers. Binge drinkers are those having 8 for males and 6 for females units of alcohol at a>Teenager drinking rates are currently declining, but there are still groups of teenagers drinking twice more than the amount of alcohol allowed for adult women. Many of these teens are high school students and the level of alcohol consumption they have is dangerously high.
