I doubt anyone would disagree that we need to make headway in reducing illegal drug use in this country. We know the toll that illegal drug use takes on families, on communities, on our state and on our economy.
What do we know, though, about what works to reduce drug use? Actually, we know quite a lot, thanks to research in the areas of neuroscience and economics.
We know from neuroscience that the way infant and toddler brains are built between birth and age 3 can make the difference between a child who enters kindergarten ready to succeed and one who is more likely to drop out before graduation.
We know that building a baby’s brain is like building a house. Like the foundation of a house, it won’t need fixing if it’s built correctly. Caring relationships with adults are what build the foundations of infant and toddler brains.
[For more of this story, written by Karen Heck, go to https://www.centralmaine.com/2...ddiction-in-the-bud/]
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