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• Healio
  College students' peer groups significantly influence alcohol use
  January 15, 2020

  College students’ alcohol use behaviors may be closely related to their perceptions of the alcohol-related behaviors and attitudes of other students within their close-knit peer group, according to study findings published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.

• News-Medical.net
  Study assesses variation in 'maturing out' of alcohol use in young adulthood
  January 12, 2020

  Rates of heavy drinking and alcohol use disorder peak in the late adolescent and early adult age-group (19-25 years), before decreasing from around age 26.

• New York Times
  My Friends Serve Underage Kids Alcohol. Should I Speak Up?
  December 20, 2019

  A psychologist’s advice for navigating a tricky topic with both your friends and your own kids.

• Daily Mail
  People in their late teens and 20s who get drunk regularly 'may have less grey matter in their brain'
  December 19, 2019

  People in their late teens and 20s who get drunk regularly may have a brain that is structurally different.

• CBC
  Family doctors should begin screening patients for alcohol addiction at age 12, B.C. guideline says
  December 18, 2019

  Family doctors in British Columbia are being urged to annually screen every patient starting at age 12, in a move to prevent alcohol addiction, a leading cause of social and economic harms.