Chunk #29 — Examples of Specific Environments that Could be Modeled Across Species: Early Alcohol Exposures and the Peer Environment — Early Alcohol Exposures
2007), and decreased sensitivity to some but not all symptoms of “hangover” (acute withdrawal; Doremus-Fitzwater & Spear, 2007). At present, it remains unclear to what extent adolescent exposure and drinking behaviors predicts adult variation in alcohol consumption in rats (Vetter et al., 2007). However, adolescence is the primary period of initiation for alcohol consumption in humans and rodent data indicate that adolescents respond differently than adults to both reinforcing and punishing effects of alcohol and they drink different.