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Tim Curry is awesome, but he actually does more video game voice work (and voice work in general) than most celebs. He was in Dragon Age: Origins and Command and Conquer as well as a few more.

You may already be aware, but there is an excellent PTSD VA clinic in the bay area. I'm so happy to hear you'll have access to some top notch resources. (I'm a rehabilitation counseling student specializing in PTSD, so I'm reading this AMA with great interest. Thanks for doing this. I hope it's therapeutic.)

I can answer that last one - caffeine. It's even in the DSM. Caffeine addiction can be a huge problem, especially in teens who get hooked on energy drinks and such, since caffeine inhibits brain development in youth. Probably also social media and sugar addictions.

It's been a while since we covered it in grad school, and I don't have paywall access anymore, so I'm not sure explicitly where my initial source was.

The NIH is usually a great source for collected information about topics. Their article on caffeine and adolescents is pretty good.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2699625/

A lot of studies are cited there. However, they also note there needs to be more research about humans directly, especially human females. And I can see why; a quick traipse through Google scholar showed most research is in regards to adolescent rats. There's quite a bit there to look through.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=caffeine+adolescent+brain+development&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart