Teen Drinking: What You Need to Know with Professor Rob Turrisi

Raising Good Humans

Voicing Change Media

Kids & Family, Parenting, Education

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In today’s episode, we sit down with Professor Rob Turrisi, a leading expert in behavioral decision-making and substance misuse prevention, to discuss teen drinking. With decades of research, Turrisi shares insights on the developmental factors influencing alcohol use among adolescents and emerging adults, exploring the transition from high school to college, peer environments, and alarming data on blackout drinking and alcohol use disorder. We discuss the impact of positive communication, effective monitoring, and setting clear household rules. We also dive into common misconceptions, such as the belief that allowing teens to drink at home prevents binge drinking in college. MADD’s “Power of Parents Handbook” https://online.flippingbook.com/view/320259548/ I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK! Order your copy of The Five Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans Here: https://bit.ly/3rMLMsL Subscribe to my free newsletter for parenting tips delivered straight to your inbox: https://dralizapressman.substack.com/ Follow me on Instagram for more: @raisinggoodhumanspodcast Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode. Produced by Dear Media. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:09.8	Welcome to Raising Good Humans.
0:12.2	I'm Dr. Elisa Pressman, and today's episode is a conversation with Professor Rob Teresei.
0:21.1	I wanted to have this conversation with him
0:22.8	because he talks about all the evidence
0:26.0	that we have in behavioral decision making
0:28.9	and substance misuse prevention.
0:31.7	And how we can use that to inform our decisions
0:35.3	about how to support our kids, about teen drinking. He has decades of
0:40.6	research that he shares insights on. He talks about developmental factors influencing alcohol
0:45.8	use among adolescents and emerging adults and the transition from high school to college.
0:51.8	We're going over things like peer environments and specifically some of the alarming
0:58.0	data on blackout drinking and alcohol use disorders, but more importantly, the concrete
1:02.6	ways we can respond, how we can set limits, but also be supportive, how we can promote
1:09.3	our kids telling us the truth without promoting
1:13.6	their use of substances, all the complexities that make it really challenging to raise teenagers
1:19.7	today. I thought this was such a helpful conversation. So I wanted to share it with you because
1:25.7	this is the time of year. For those of you with younger kids, it may seem a little premature.
1:30.4	But when you have older kids, the summer and all the celebrations and all of the kind of freedom that comes with it also comes with new discussions to have about how to support our kids so that they are not going down that
1:46.2	path of dangerous drinking or problematic substance misuse.
1:51.5	And I just want to give a quick shout out to anybody who has kids who are graduating
1:57.8	because graduations are happening this week and next week. I have my own daughter's
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