Alcohol
Depressant
What type of drug is alcohol?
What are possible consequences from underage drinking?
The amount of alcohol circulating in your blood.
What is blood alcohol content?
A person is passed out or semi-conscious and cannot be awakened, OR a person vomits while sleeping or passed out and does not wake up, OR a person's rate of breathing seems slow or irregular, OR a person has cold, clammy, pale or bluish color skin.
What are life threatening signs of alcohol overdose? CALL 911!
Changing the norms and culture around underage drinking at our high school.
What is one goal of the P2P club?
Impairs judgement and coordination
How does alcohol affect the body?
12 oz of beer, 5 oz of wine, 1.5 oz of hard alcohol.
What is ONE standard drink? All of these have the same amount of alcohol in them.
As this increases so does your level of impairment.
What is blood alcohol content?
Giving someone water, bread, coffee, cold shower, hot shower or making someone throw up.
What are myths on how to sober someone up?
37% of 11th graders
How many 11th graders in AUHSD used alcohol in the past 30 days? This is according to the 2017 California Healthy Kids Survey
Depresses nerves that control breathing and gag reflex.
What are dangerous consequences of drinking too much alcohol? Heavy use depresses involuntary reflexes.
5 or more drinks in two hours for boys
4 or more drinks in two hours for girls
What is binge drinking?
Rate of consumption, gender, weight, tolerance.
What determines someones blood alcohol content?
A law that protects intoxicated minors if they call the police or 911 when a friend is overly intoxicated and needs help.
What is The Good Samaritan Law. This law gives immunity to a young person if they are drunk or wasted themselves and they make a call to law enforcement. MAKE THE CALLl! You won't get in trouble and you may SAVE A LIFE.
8% of 9th graders
How many 9th graders in AUHSD used alcohol in the past 30 days? This is according to the 2017 California Healthy Kids Survey.
Used more than marijuana
What is alcohol? Alcohol is the number one drug used among young people nationwide and at our high school.
1 hour.
What is the average amount of time it takes one drink to leave your system?
The legal Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) limit for someone driving under 21
What is 0. You cannot have any alcohol in your system if under 21 and driving. You will probably lose your license for a year in California.
Time
What is the only way for someone to sober up?
The cost ($) of a DUI?
What is $15,000.
40% of those who take a drink before age 15
What percentage of adult alcoholics drank before age 15?
Three girls sharing a fifth of vodka at Grizzly Peak.
What is binge drinking?
"Dude, you really made a fool out of yourself last night. I can't believe you don't remember."
What is a "blackout?"
This is something a friend might say. A person in blackout seems conscious to others, but cannot remember what they did or where they were. Memories from "black-outs" are never formed so they can't return.
Letting your friend sleep it off.
What is the most dangerous thing you can do when trying to sober up a friend? Many tragedies have occurred after putting a friend to bed. BAC can continue to rise even after someone stops drinking; even while someone is sleeping. Young people can die in their sleep as breathing progressively shuts down as well as by asphyxiation caused by choking on their own vomit.
Four Loko, Smirnoff Ice, Mike's Hard Lemonade
What is "binge drinking" in a can?
Sometimes called "alco-pops," these types of drinks appeal to young people and usually contain the equivalent of 4-5 standard drinks.