How alcohol affects the brain

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Can anyone get addicted to alcohol?
👉🏼Self-medicating makes us more likely to drink alone and decreases our resilience 👉🏼The teen brain is still developing, so beginning drinking at 14 or earlier will allow alcohol to influence how the brain develops. 👉🏼ACE score is a tally of 10 different types of adverse childhood experiences (abuse, neglect, growing up with a parent who struggled with addiction, etc). The higher your ACE score, the more likely you are to struggle with addiction yourself