Antigo Times

Top Menu

  • E-Editions
  • Contact Us

Main Menu

  • News
    • Business
  • Covid 19
  • Opinion
  • Courts
  • Arts & Ent
  • Sports
    • Sports News
    • High School Sports Scores
  • Classifieds
    • View Ads
    • Place Ads
  • Legal Ads
    • Our Legals
    • Statewide
  • Obits
  • Video
  • Best of 2022
  • E-Editions
  • Contact Us

logo

Antigo Times

  • News
    • Business
  • Covid 19
  • Opinion
  • Courts
  • Arts & Ent
  • Sports
    • Sports News
    • High School Sports Scores
  • Classifieds
    • View Ads
    • Place Ads
  • Legal Ads
    • Our Legals
    • Statewide
  • Obits
  • Video
  • Best of 2022
Health
Home›Health›Office of Children’s Mental Health Focuses on Preventing Underage Drinking with New Fact Sheet

Office of Children’s Mental Health Focuses on Preventing Underage Drinking with New Fact Sheet

By Antigo Times
April 15, 2020
1353
0

FOR ANTIGO TIMES

Office of Children’s Mental Health Director Linda Hall today announces the publication of a new fact sheet detailing how to support our children’s well-being through preventing underage drinking. While youth in Wisconsin are drinking less, they are still drinking more than youth in other states. Peer pressure, the ease in which youth can obtain alcohol, as well as advertising in the community may encourage unhealthy drinking behaviors.

Highlights include:

  • Using alcohol at an early age can lead to negative health outcomes that in turn can lead to, or worsen, symptoms of depression and anxiety.
  • Youth tend to binge drink more than adults, which can interfere with normal brain development.
  • In Wisconsin, only 36% of kids think it’s risky for them to have 5 or more drinks a couple times a week.
  • Having short, frequent, casual conversations with young children and throughout adolescence is one of the best interventions for parents to prevent underage drinking.

See the complete fact sheet.

See previous fact sheets.

Previous Article

Louis “Duke” Steve Kolisar, 81

Next Article

Sharing the roads with horses. ...

Related articles More from author

  • BusinessHealth

    Health Insurance Coverage: A Message from the USDA

    January 5, 2015
    By Dan Turczynski, Editor
  • HealthNews

    Renewing disabled parking cards made easier

    April 15, 2015
    By Antigo Times
  • HealthNews

    Celebrate World Red Cross Day by giving blood

    April 15, 2015
    By Antigo Times
  • Health

    Langlade County Healthy Ways: Guide to Workout Nutrition

    April 30, 2015
    By Antigo Times
  • HealthNews

    Red Cross, Nexcare Bandages and supermodel Niki Taylor celebrate World Blood Donor Day

    June 9, 2015
    By Antigo Times
  • HealthNews

    Red Cross To Install Smoke Alarms, Teach People Fire Safety In Rothschild & Two Wausau Neighborhoods

    June 12, 2015
    By Antigo Times
Copyright © 2020 Multi Media Channels LLC.
All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied, modified or adapted without the prior written consent of Multi Media Channels LLC.
×