Why alcohol is so dangerous for young adults’ brains

Friends and partners’ friends may serve as role models for drinking more than romantic partners do (Yancey, Grant, Kurosky, Kravitz-Wirtz, & Mistry, 2011), which may explain the increased importance of behavior modeling in explaining friends’ and partners’ friends’ associations with adolescents’ own alcohol use. In Model 4 (the fully specified model), the coefficients for adolescents’…