Brainy Teens More Likely Drink Alcohol, Use Cannabis Than Less Academically Gifted Counterparts? See Study Details Here

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Intelligent teens have more chances to use cannabis, smoke and drink alcohol compared to their less brainy counterparts. This study also claimed that these behaviors would increase the risk of instant and longer-term health complications.

Many believe bright children would comprehend better, Mail Online reported. However, they're more probably to experiment with drugs and alcohol as a teenager, the new study published in the online journal BMJ Open revealed.

According to researchers, they are twice as possible to booze during adolescence whereas 50 percent more likely to smoke cannabis once in a while. Moreover, clever teenagers were less plausible to begin smoking cigarettes.

Researchers from University College London examined the behaviors of 6,059 young individuals to attain the conclusion. Unlike the less brainy counterparts, researchers found that those intelligent teens are also fated to do similar things during adulthood.

The research team collected information from participants' academic performance at age 11.
This was subsequently merged with health conducts of ages 13 to 14 and 16 to 17, which are considered as early adolescence.

The procedures were then repeated when participants reach their age between 18 to 19 and 19 to 20; these are classified as late adolescence. Finally, researchers determined that during early teens of intelligent pupils, they were less inclined to smoke cigarettes.

On the other hand, they were more likely to booze and use cannabis than their less brainy colleagues. The clever participants were also about twice as promising to indulge in marijuana in a long-term practice.

According to
 Medical Xpress, the data on possible associations between intelligence and cannabis, alcohol and smoking are slightly diverse. Furthermore, no research has tracked down the use of all the three substances from preliminary adolescence to early adulthood.

"High childhood academic at age 11 is associated with a reduced risk of cigarette smoking but an increased risk of drinking alcohol regularly and cannabis use," the researchers wrote.

These behaviors continue into early adulthood. It provides opposing evidence to the theory that being intelligent is linked with short-lived "experimentation" with the three substances.

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