Above is a picture depicting the difference between hippocampus’s in adolescents who do drink and adolescents who do not drink (De Bellis et al., 2014).
Above is a general overview of how adolescent alcohol use effects the brain's functioning (Brown et al., 2009).
Above is a picture is a diagram of the healthy adolescent brain with the lobes, cortexes, and the limbic system labelled and explained (www.brainwaves.com et al., 2014).
If kids are subjected to harsher consequences more kids will choose not to drink because it’s illegal and if more kids are shown how unhealthy adolescent alcohol use really is they will also abstain from drinking because they will know the potential risks. The top two reasons why kids chose not to drink was because it's unsafe and unhealthy and it's illegal so if we make stricter laws and make adolescent alcohol use a prominent issue in society we could save lives one at a time (Omnibuzz et al., 2003).
If kids are subjected to harsher consequences more kids will choose not to drink because it’s illegal and if more kids are shown how unhealthy adolescent alcohol use really is they will also abstain from drinking because they will know the potential risks. The top two reasons why kids chose not to drink was because it's unsafe and unhealthy and it's illegal so if we make stricter laws and make adolescent alcohol use a prominent issue in society we could save lives one at a time (Omnibuzz et al., 2003).