"I think because of this pressure the girls find that alcohol lessons their inhibition. It also represses their emotion and anxieties and fears about it." - Annie Prescott, Ph.D., psychologist ...

Girls who hit puberty early are at sharply higher risk of abusing alcohol as teens if their parents don't keep tabs on them, new research shows. Early-maturing girls whose parents gave them free ...

Teen use of alcohol and alcohol in combination with cannabis is decreasing, but use by girls is decreasing more slowly than it is for boys, according to a study published in Alcoholism ...