While it is common for people to try alcohol in adolescence, alcohol use in teens can be detrimental to health and may affect brain development and mental health. While teens usually drink less often ...

One in four U.S. adolescents is exposed to violence in their neighborhood, and those teens are more than twice as likely to use cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs to cope, according to a new study from the ...

A person's drinking patterns at age 18 predict the trajectory of their drinking behavior into adulthood, and that trajectory ...

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Alcohol treatment for adolescents in England who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) is more than twice as likely to fail than compared to those who are, University of Manchester ...

For alcohol consumption, stronger associations were found for adolescents aged 16 years and older and for exposure to user generated content compared with marketer generated content. And spending at ...

Insomnia is linked to frequency of alcohol use among early adolescents, according to new Rutgers University-Camden research. "Parents, educators, and therapists should consider insomnia to be a risk ...

A new study utilizing artificial intelligence has identified specific behavioral patterns that predict alcohol preference in ...

Adolescents who use social media such as Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and TikTok every day are more likely to engage in risky behavior, according to a new study. Children as young as 10 are at greater ...