title: Alcohol and adolescence.
abstract: Alcohol is the drug of choice for most substance-abusing adolescents and is the drug most often associated with teenage deaths. This article summarizes what is known about the inheritance of alcohol abuse, as well as the physical, developmental, psychosocial, and behavioral factors related to adolescent alcohol use.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology; D000431:Ethanol / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol