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Alcohol and Teens Don’t Mix: Be Their Guide. Don’t Provide.

7.1.20_PR_Beware_WebsiteWhile summer is time for beach, barbeques and boating, on an average day in June or July, more than 11,000 12-17-year-olds start drinking alcohol for the first time (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration). In the Massapequas, youth report having their first drink before the age of fourteen and as they navigate through high school, underage drinking increases dramatically (2018
NYSOASAS PFS YDS).

MTAC’s new underage drinking prevention campaign, Alcohol and Teens Don’t Mix: Be Their Guide. Don’t Provide. offers resources to help parents talk with their youth about the consequences and prevention of underage drinking and how it affects their brain, health and safety. Adolescence is a critical time for our youth as the brain is still developing - through the age of twenty-five. Alcohol and drugs can interfere with
the natural development of the brain. When children begin using alcohol or drugs before the age of fifteen, it increases their likelihood of alcohol or drug dependence into adulthood (National Institute on Drug Abuse).

To learn more about the dangers underage drinking has on our youth, go to mtacoalition.com or like/follow
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