Alcohol Information for Kids and Teens

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• Health: Specific Substances: Alcohol 

• Alcohol - It Can Affect Your Life  - Discusses what alcohol is, how it affects people, why kids and teens drink, too much alcohol, keeping safe, and alcohol facts.
• The Cool Spot  - Site devoted to teens featuring resources to help them resist peer pressure and reality checks on teenage drinking.
• Drinking: Facts for Teens  - Discusses why to say no, problems caused by alcohol, affects on the body, knowing when there's a problem, and stopping.
• I Think I May Have a Drinking/Drug Problem. What Should I Do?  - Explains warning signs, recognizing a problem, and resources.
• KidsHealth: Alcohol  - Tells about getting the right message, what happens when people drink, alcoholism, and saying no.
• Neuroscience for Kids: Alcohol and the Brain  - Looks at what alcohol does in the body, effects of low and high doses, alcohol and driving, and statistics.
• TeensHealth: Alcohol  - Includes facts about alcohol, what it is, how it affects the body, why teens drink, how to avoid alcohol, and getting help.
• Too Smart To Start  - Presents information about alcohol and its effects on the body. Also contains advice and resources for kids and teens, parents and caregivers.
• Underage Drinking: Myths vs. Facts  - Brochure from StopAlcoholAbuse tells about health risks, being cool, peer pressure, getting sober, and safe drinking.
• WebMD: Teens and Alcohol  - Furnishes information on alcohol, what it does, addiction, why people drink, binge drinking, reasons to not drink, and peer pressure.