Vocabulary
Short-Term Effects
Long-Term Effects
Organs
Potpourie
100
A drug created in a chemical reaction from fruits, vegetables, and grains.
What is alcohol?
100
Ejecting matter from the stomach through the mouth which can occur from excessive drinking.
What is vomiting?
100
A physical or psychological need for alcohol or any drug.
What is addiction?
100
Where alcohol enters the body then moves down esophagus.
What is the mouth?
100
The process of learning to lead an alcohol free life. It is usually a long and difficult process.
What is recovery?
200
Drugs that slow down the body's functions and reactions.
What is a depressant?
200
A person's mental and physical abilities have been impaired by alcohol.
What is intoxication?
200
A progressive chronic disease involving mental and physical need for alcohol.
What is alcoholism?
200
Alcohol is broken down here into water and carbon dioxide gas.
What is the liver?
200
A process in which your body need more of alcohol or a drug to get the same effects.
What is tolerance?
300
A dangerous condition that results when a person drinks excessive amounts of alcohol over a short period of time.
What is alcohol poisoning?
300
A severe headache or other after effects caused by drinking an excessive amount of alcohol.
What is a hangover?
300
The physical and psychological reactions that occur when someone stops using alcohol.
What is withdrawal?
300
Moves alcohol throughout one's body via the blood stream.
What is the heart?
300
A gathering in which family and friends get the problem drinker to agree to seek help.
What is an intervention?
400
A measure of the amount of alcohol present in a person's blood.
What is blood alcohol content (BAC)?
400
Consuming large amounts of alcohol in a short period of time.
What is binge drinking?
400
A group of alcohol-related birth defects that include both physical and mental problems.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)?
400
An organ where alcohol effects memory, speech, judgement, vision, and hearing.
What is the brain?
400
The physical process of freeing the body of an addictive substance.
What is detoxification?
500
One type of cancer developed from excessive long-term alcohol consumption.
What is throat, mouth, or liver cancer?
500
The legal alcohol limit in New Jersey for driving.
What is 0.08 or 8%?
500
A disease characterized by scarring and eventual destruction of the liver.
What is cirrhosis?
500
A condition in which unhealthy substances builds up in the liver and can not be broken down.
What is fatty liver?
500
A return to the use of alcohol or drugs after attempting to stop.
What is relapse?
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