Early Exposure To Drugs, Alcohol Creates Lifetime Of Health Risk
Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 16:28
in Psychology & Sociology
Is it bad kids who do drugs, or doing drugs that makes kids bad? The answer is "both." People who began drinking and using marijuana regularly prior to their 15th birthday face a higher risk of early pregnancy, as well as a pattern of school failure, substance dependence, sexually-transmitted disease and criminal convictions that lasts into their 30s.