*Teens who abuse alcohol can develop smaller frontal lobes. This part of the brain oversees emotions, personality, motor function, problem solving, spontaneity, memory, and language, and more.
*Alcohol can shrink the hippocampus, the brain area that helps with learning and memory.
*Almost half of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become an alcoholic.
*Studies show that emergency rooms get over 500 underage drinking-related emergency room visits every day.
*The numbers are dropping: over the last 5 years, teen alcohol abuse has been on the way down.
*In the U.S. alone, about 5,000 people under age 21 die each year from injuries caused by underage drinking.
http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/_pdfs/drugfacts/ATI_DrugFacts_ALCOHOL.pdf
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