How many teens are on drugs or consuming alcohol? The best way to find out is to ask them. And that’s exactly what the NIDA does every year in its annual Monitoring the Future study. On a national scale, thousands of teens are trying, using, consuming, or outright addicted to a substance. So we posed…
It’s the cool thing to do. The popular kids go to parties and drink alcohol or do drugs, sometimes both. If you want to hang with the in crowd, then you have to be at the party. And once at the party, you have to do what the cool kids do if you ever hope…
Supplying a teenager with alcohol is serious. It can lead to unforeseen, sometimes deadly, consequences. Yet, friends, family, and other adults often give alcohol to minors without a second thought. Before supplying a teenager with alcohol, consider these five reasons not to give a teen alcohol. #1: Supplying Alcohol to Someone Under the Age of…
Did you know that most of the people killed in alcohol-related crashes include teenage drivers and passengers? According to NCDOT.gov, in 2019, fifteen to nineteen-year-olds accounted for 975 alcohol related crashes on North Carolina roadways, resulting in 9 fatalities. The fact is too many people still fail to realize the danger of mixing alcohol with…