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Article: Drinking and thinking: what impact is alcohol having on today's youth?
- Article from:
- Vibrant Life
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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Think when you drink!" admonishes the alcohol industry in a gesture toward preventing alcohol abuse among young people. But professionals who work in the field of alcohol and drug prevention find this motto amusing. It qualifies as an oxymoron--a phrase that is self-contradictory. Drinking alcohol is a sure means of interfering with thinking, beginning even with the first drink.
Alcohol compromises the user's ability to perform normal as well as complex tasks, slows down the recording and retrieval of information by brain cells, degrades coordination, slows reaction time, and distorts perception, judgment, and concentration. Such mental impairment is the reason that ...