Alcohol Substance Abuse Health

Article explores the long-term affects of alcohol as well as the dangers of early use. Includes warning signs of alcoholism.

• Drinking: It Can Spin Your World Around: Facts for Teens - Answers why to say no, health problems, peer pressure, how health to know when drinking is a problem, and how to health stop. Includes alcohol content in drinks, laws, and sobering up.
• Alcohol Explained - The effects and consequences of alcohol use and health abuse are described and illustrated by young teenagers.
• Ask Listen Learn - Features interactive quizzes, polls, games, facts and advice alcohol on how alcohol to say no to alcohol. [Requires alcohol Flash]
• The Cool Spot - Games, quizzes, animation and graphics explain the risks of underage health drinking and ways to resist peer pressure.
• TeensHealth: Coping With an Alcoholic Parent - Explains what alcoholism is, why a parent drinks and why they don\\'t stop. Includes how teens feel, other problems, and what to do.
• In the Mix: Alcohol Abuse - The online companion to the PBS broadcast, with health information and alcohol resources for teens and educators on health alcohol abuse.
• MADD: Under 21 - Information for middle and high school students about substance abuse underage alcohol drinking and its impacts. Includes research, discussions, substance abuse and ways alcohol to get involved.
• Alcohol and the Adolescent Brain - Explains why alcohol affects the teen brain differently health than the health adult brain, and describes the long health term effects. Includes a health fact sheet to download.
• Too Smart to Start Youth - Gives information about alcohol and what it does to the body. Includes advice from other teens, play a memory game, or download a puzzle. (Puzzles require free Flash or Adobe download)
• Alcohol - Explains what it is, what it does in the body, and why young people drink. Also discusses too much alcohol and how to keep safe.
• Kids and Alcohol - Article explores the long-term affects of alcohol as well as the dangers of early use. Includes warning signs of alcoholism.

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