Submissions
Brainwave Trust’s main role is to disseminate the complex science that can be found in universities and other research institutions around the world and repackage it in an accessible way. To ensure that public policies are developed using all the facts that are available we have recently taken the opportunity to have input into two reviews of legislation.
- In September we made a submission in response to the government’s Safer Journeys discussion document released earlier in 2009 with particular emphasis on adolescent brain development and how it pertains to the area defined as of high concern: Increasing the safety of young drivers. Read the full text of this submission here.
- In October we made a further submission, this time in response to “Alcohol In Our Lives”: a discussion document of the Law Commission. We drew attention to the damage alcohol can do to growing brains, both in pregnancy and during adolescence. Read the full text of this submission here.
- We are the first generation of adults and policy makers to have access to this material. Even as recently as 1999 when the decision was made to lower the drinking age in New Zealand, knowledge about brain development in adolescence was not known.
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