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Charismatic high school students present to middle school students some groundbreaking information about the effects of alcohol on developing brains. New studies show that the brain is a complex organ that builds its basic capacities and potential for the future during adolescent years. Alcohol use during this time has a major impact because it disrupts the growing brain’s plasticity (encoding and programming progress), which in turn impairs its response to stimuli essential to learning and memory. There is now evidence that the brain continues to develop until the age of 24, three years past the "legal" drinking age. The message to middle school students in this peer education video is clear: Alcohol use is not healthy and not cool; most kids do not use it; and those who do risk irreversible damage to their developing brains.
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