In adolescents, alcohol is really doing much more powerful damage to the function of those brain circuits than it is in the adult. Swartzwelder says one of the most dangerous features of alcohol is that it deadens the nerve receptors that control our breathing. This is why too much alcohol can lead to suffocation and death, especially in younger drinkers who are more likely to experiment with their capacity for alcohol. I'm Tom Britt. Swartzwelder says just because alcohol is legal for those over 21 does not mean it is safe.
Many people have an artificial dichotomy about drugs.
They break them into legal and illegal. Illegal ones are bad - legal ones are okay. Of course that's false from a biological standpoint, but many people don't think about that. Tom Britt has more. If your kids are like most who are out of school for the holidays, they've probably been either lying around the house with nothing to do, or they've been constantly on the go.