Parents have never been more indifferent about teenage drinking despite clear evidence that such alcohol abuse can affect a young person’s brain development, a seminar has been told.
Dr Bobby Smyth, a child and adolescent psychiatrist who treats addiction, said yesterday that adolescence was an important phase. It was a time when the brain was developing and changing and during which teenagers were learning social skills for life.
Source: Eithne Donnellan, The Irish Times, 18/11/2010
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