What do you know about alcohol?
Alcohol affects our brain’s pleasure-reward system by pretending to be a neurotransmitter. It tricks the brain into generating pleasure-reward feelings from a harmful chemical instead of a real experience.
If a teen continues drinking, the brain changes and adapts to the presence of alcohol and soon the teen needs more and more alcohol to create the same amount of pleasure. Getting their next drink becomes more important than family, grades or even sports.
Because the teen brain produces an abundance of dopamine, it can go rapidly from liking, to wanting, to needing alcohol, programming it for alcoholism. Alcohol can also damage the brain’s ability to sense pleasure from normal, healthy things and experiences – leaving a young person feeling “flat” about things he/she previously enjoyed.
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